In response to James Tanis <[email protected]>: > Bill Moran wrote: > > > Replace the cable. If the cable is marginal, autoneg will downgrade the > > speed to ensure reliability. Use a cable that you know will produce > > 1000baseTX because you've tested it on other systems. > > > Well, I don't have any verified working cable of the appropriate length > so I simply switched out the cables for the main server and the backup > server. They are both cat6 cables crimped with cat5e modules by me. For > what reason (bad crimp job?) that seemed to fix the issue.
QC on patch cables is sketchy. Most places are usually good, but even the best companies will have a bad crimp every now and again. Add to that how they are generally handled ... I mean, statistically there's a good chance that cable was on the floor and someone stepped on it or something ... -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
