On 22.09.2011 07:45, quinn snyder wrote: > garry -- please see inline. > > regards, > q. > > On Thu, 22 Sep 2011, Garry wrote: > >> On 21.09.2011 23:27, [email protected] wrote: >>> Is Gig-E auto negotiation set the same on both devices? It sounds >>> kind of like the Nortel has Gig-E auto negotiation disabled, so it >>> will show link as soon as it sees light. Your NX might be trying to >>> auto negotiate which won't work if the other side isn't doing it as >>> well. Maybe try disabling auto neg on the NX. >> >> The port is configured to "speed 1000", which AFAIK required if you use >> 1G SFPs instead of the default 10G ones ... is there anything else to >> changes/disable? > > yes -- this in regards to the configuration on the n5.5k. however, i > believe that the original question was not in regards to the speed > setting on the port, but to the negotiation of the interface itself, > either needing to be disabled on the n5.5k or enabled on the nortel. > something along the lines of 'no negotiation auto' or so. > i believe the following url has something regarding this on the new > nx-os versions.[0] Checked the docs, the negotiation disable feature is available from 5.0.3N2, of course the N5K5 here had 5.0.3N1 ... ;) Doing the upgrade now, should see if that's the cause of the problem ... I remember a similar problem on a 3560 which we had to disable the auto neg, though I believe it at least said something in the logs ... so that was easier to pinpoint...
Tnx, -garry _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
