On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 07:41, Simon Wiehe wrote: > Hi, > > I have used Solaris in the office for many years but I now have an old Ultra > 5 which I am running Solaris 10 on. I got the install from a Sun stand at a > company internal event back in July. I installed it on the Ultra 5 a couple > of weeks ago and managed to get everything seemingly working, I did a basic > install with dhcp working directly on the machine. Yesterday I managed to > correctly configure the dhcp client to have the correct host information and > update the DNS server for the network (DHCP and DNS server are running on > Linux). I also managed to correctly configure the DNS server to allow > nslookups from anywhere on the local network so reverse DNS is now working > correctly. > > My problem is that the network connections to the Ultra 5 are very slow. A > telnet session (using Putty on Windows) works fine for a few minutes and then > pauses for several seconds and then works fine again. I have tried using > Cygwin/X to start a Gnome session and that partially starts but I never get a > login prompt, just an hour glass (sun variety) and a black screen. I also > switched the X session to try and start an X application with the display set > to the Window machine running Cygwin/X and it just seems to hang with nothing > appearing on the windows machine. > > I am looking for pointers to documentation that will help me diagnose any > issues and also any tools that can give me an idea of what is going on. I > have limited Linux admin knowledge, I tend to fumble my way through HOWTOs > and FAQs to get things working. > > Thanks > I'm not certain that it's applicable with Solaris 10, but with certain ethernet switches (Cisco in particular) in the past, I'd had to set duplex and speed manually due to flaky autonegotiation. This page on docs.sun.com may help.
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