On Sun, 29 Jul 2001, Guenter Millahn wrote: > Hello community, > > I have an Sun SPARC Ultra-80 running Debian/woody together with an older > switch (LattisSwitch 28115 by Bay Networks). > The Workstation has a standard hme (happy meal) network card. > > Something with the autonegotiation doesn't work, probably because of the > age of the switch. I have configured 100 Mb/sec full-duplex on the > switch, but the Debian box falls back to 100 Mb/sec half-duplex. Another > effect on this box: After a reboot of the switch the connection is down > until I remove the plug from the switch and plug in it again.
It also depends what you're connecting it to. If it's a network hub (without the intelligence of a switch) it'll always default to half-duplex. If it's connected to a switch (whether it be a level 2 or a level 3 switch) it should default to full-duplex. At least that's how it behaves with Solaris, and the limited experience I've had with Debian/Sparc shows the same result. Regards, Craig. -- Craig Ian Dewick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). http://lios.apana.org.au/~craig Operator of Jedi (APANA Sydney member-access site) in Waterfall, Australia. Always striving for a secure long-term future in an insecure short-term world Have you exported a crypto system today? Do your bit to undermine the NSA.
