Weird networking issue.

Tue Jan 7 22:17:38 UTC 2003

At 10:32 PM 1/7/2003 +0100, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
>On Tue, 7 Jan 2003 alex at pilosoft.com wrote:
> >
> > Sun's hme cards won't go full duplex even though they advertise it to
> > remote switch, causing immense headaches to anyone with Sun gear...
>
>That is just not true. I've had several Sun boxes with hme interfaces
>properly autoneg into 100/full with misc equipment, including 3548:s, and
>working properly.
>--
>Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se

The behavior I've seen in the past is Sun gear negotiating properly when 
plugged into Cisco gear that is already running. If you power cycle the 
switch with the servers already attached the port will not negotiate 
correctly... usually to half duplex.

Also I've seen duplex problems in the past week that caused, runts, giants, 
collisions, CRCs, errors of all sorts, kernel module reloads, vlan tagging 
failure, and depletion of the ozone layer. Or maybe is was reality tv that 
caused that ozone thing...

Ramin