You mean they teach u how to plug things in for that now? Wow must get me on a course for that ASAP :P
Seriously though I've seem some bad problems when autoneg is turned off as well as turned on. Do high volume transfers run a full speed? Is the switch seeing link loses? Start with the basics a work up I'm sure a CCNA can figure that :D
Also choke spikes are often related to people setting rates too high for their connections.
Steve / K ----- Original Message ----- From: "kama" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, Dan Sorenson wrote:
>The problem is that I see chokespikes on many of the server, if not all. >They either run bge or fxp. I will get an em NIC available later and will >test that card instead. afaik em is not a miibus card as bge and fxp are. >I dont know if it will change anything with other NIC, but I am willing to >try.
Just an FYI, but when dealing with issues on network cards one should make certain that the switch or hub and the card agree on speed, and if autonegotiation is enabled on both sides there's often problems because with ethernet there's no real agreed-upon protocol for establishing that autonegotiation.
So, if you've a hub set the card for whatever speed and half-duplex. Hubs require half-duplex for the collission handshaking mechanism of ethernet to work. If a switch, set the card to whatever speed and full duplex. If you can set the switch port to the same speed that is, of course, the best solution.
My servers are connected directly to a cisco 7609. I dont run autoneg on any of the servers. And are set up by a CCNAJIRKDSRK, or whatever combination of characters that suites his expertise level.
/Bjorn
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