I had been using Cat5e. It appears that could be the culprit. Switching to Cat6 fixed my problem.
Tim -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of J. Epperson Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 12:39 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Odd problem with second interface (bnx2) on Dell R710 On Wed, January 6, 2010 15:34, Carlson, Timothy S wrote: > I want to thank everyone for at least looking at this email :) > > It turns out that I had *two* bad cables. The third cable connected up to > my switch (Cisco 3750-E) just fine and the interface came up nicely at > gigabit speed. > > Sorry for the trouble > Curious: were they all Cat6 cables? Gig calls for Cat6, but Cat5 will work, hit or miss. If they're Cat5, you just stumbled onto one that was "just good enough". _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
