In addition to Thomas's comment's, if you are not using auto-negotiation on
a switch connected to a Sun NIC, the Sun NIC will default to only detecting
the speed - duplex will be set to half.
If you want to manually set the speed and duplex on a Sun NIC, check out
Sun's website for the required changes - they are fairly minor if you're
familiar with SunOS/Solaris but requires (AFAIK) the Sun box to be restarted.
Also check Cisco's "Troubleshooting Cisco Catalyst Switches to Network
Interface Card (NIC) Compatibility Issues" page at
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/473/46.html
RM
Thomas Crowe wrote:
>
> Check for a duplex mis-match on the interface. It is a fairly
> well know
> issue that Sun and Cisco's don't auto negotiate well. Hard
> code the speed
> and duplex on preferably both sides, and you should the FCS
> errors go away.
>
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> Thomas Crowe
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of
> David Eitel
> Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 1:05 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: High FCS errors on cat5505 [7:15885]
>
>
> Thanks Frank. You wouldn't happen to have sun boxes giving you
> problems?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Eitel
> Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 12:30 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: High FCS errors on cat5505 [7:15885]
>
>
> Hello. I'm experiencing huge amounts of fcs errors on my switch.
> 3/1 91521 fcs errors
> 3/2 28078 fcs errors
> These counters were cleared Friday. I understand that these
> errors are
> usually media related. I've swapped cables so far which has not
> seemed to
> help. I can tell you there is a sun e450 and e250 attached to
> these ports.
> Do you know of any interoperability issues with the cat 5505
> and sun NICS?
>
> Thanks In Advance,
> Dave
>
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