Re: 100Mb/Full Duplex

2000-03-27 Thread Stephen Zander
> "Bdale" == Bdale Garbee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bdale> Some folks at work saw similar weirdness with the Bdale> negotiation on some HP switch products, their solution was Bdale> to configure the switch to not do the auto discovery Bdale> protocol, but instead have each por

Re: 100Mb/Full Duplex

2000-03-25 Thread Bdale Garbee
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > I'm having some trouble, actually with a Cisco 6509 switch, but getting > it to talk to 20 VALinux machines. My story: Some folks at work saw similar weirdness with the negotiation on some HP switch products, their solution was to configure the switch t

Re: 100Mb/Full Duplex

2000-03-23 Thread W. Paul Mills
You might try starting at Donald Becker's site -- http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/ He has authored many ethernet drivers. He also has some test programs for specific cards which can help. Latest drivers for many cards available. There is a document there on autonegotiation. Links to s

Re: 100Mb/Full Duplex

2000-03-23 Thread John Lapeyre
I hope I understand your question. Donald Becker's web site has a few utilities, 'mdiag' is one, that let you manually set the speed. It worked for my pcmcia EEpro, but it does not work for all cards. *Tim Sailer wrote: > Hi folks. > > I'm having some trouble, actually with a Cisco 6509 switc

100Mb/Full Duplex

2000-03-22 Thread Tim Sailer
Hi folks. I'm having some trouble, actually with a Cisco 6509 switch, but getting it to talk to 20 VALinux machines. My story: I have a rack of 20 machines needing to talk to a Pix firewall with gigbit interfaces on it. To do this, we set up a test rig using an Alteon switch with 1 gigabit interf