Interestingly, just now I fixed a problem with a Sun Netra server that was set to autonegotiate. It was connected to a 6500 that was hard-set to 100/Full. Since manually setting the speed on a 6500 disables participation in autonegotiation, the server was choosing 100/Half instead of 100/Full.
Setting both sides to auto fixed the problem and I'm no longer seeing errors on the switch. John Sam Sneed wrote: > > I see interesting, most of my sun servers are over 2 years old. > You say > newer cisco switches should be set to auto first then manual if > you have > problems. Do you mean newer as in version of IOS, OS or newer > physical > hardware? > > ""John Neiberger"" wrote in > message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > We have quite a mix of NT/Novell/Sun servers. As for the Sun > servers, > over > > half are set to auto. With those, we've only changed the > settings when we > > had an issue. With the Intel-based servers and workstations > we've moved > > most of them to auto. > > > > We've had a few machines with older NICs where auto just > wasn't working > > right, but if your NICs are relatively new and you have > updated drivers > you > > shouldn't have a problem, at least with autonegotiation. > We've had other > > issues, primarily with 3COM NICs on Dell workstations, but > those have been > > resolved. > > Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=65182&t=64931 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
