Re: [SunRay-Users] [OT'ish, may be a rant] The "duplex/autoneg excuse"

2005-09-27 Thread Derek Konigsberg
No, I have the same problem with brand new SunFire v240's.The problem still exists. The key is to NOT set your cisco to anything but auto/auto with new hardware.I suppose then its a good thing that I've never really used Cisco switches outside of a networking lab environment.  NetGear and BayStack

[SunRay-Users] utgstatus output

2005-09-27 Thread {Darkavich} Steven Misrack
SRSS2.0 when I run utgstatus I show sever servers as -A- and not up. if I go to that server and run utgstatus then it shows up on all the boxes as UA- It's my guess some multi-cast packet updates the status of these hosts. How often does this happen and can it be tuned to prevent bogus sta

Re: [SunRay-Users] [OT'ish, may be a rant] The "duplex/autoneg excuse"

2005-09-27 Thread {Darkavich} Steven Misrack
On Sep 27, 2005, at 10:42, Dave McGuire wrote: "A few years back" in terms of current product offerings, you mean. For those of us who don't dumpsterize hardware just because something new comes out, it's still a very real problem. I have about thirty Netra T1-105s deployed at work...I

RE: [SunRay-Users] [OT'ish, may be a rant] The "duplex/autoneg excuse" (was: JPEGartifacts)

2005-09-27 Thread Lebar, Russell J
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Why is it that everyone assumes this problem is so common? > Is there a particular line (or lines) of switches that most > Sun administrators use that have poortly designed auto-neg > capabilities? SUN and Cisco hardware are notor

RE: [SunRay-Users] [OT'ish, may be a rant] The "duplex/autonegexcuse"

2005-09-27 Thread David P. Roberts
> Correct me if I am wrong here, but isn't this why they want port fast > disabled or enabled? I can never remember which. The result is that > the switch port comes up faster? Sort of. Enabling Port fast means that the switch doesn't try to do spanning tree on that port. On link up, Spanning tre

Re: [SunRay-Users] [OT'ish, may be a rant] The "duplex/autoneg excuse"

2005-09-27 Thread Craig Bender
Port fast should be enabled, which is basically turning off spanning tree. {Darkavich} Steven Misrack wrote: On Sep 27, 2005, at 08:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not that I think the duplex neg has anything to do with this particular issue but I can share this with regards to Cisco switches.

Re: [SunRay-Users] [OT'ish, may be a rant] The "duplex/autoneg excuse"

2005-09-27 Thread {Darkavich} Steven Misrack
On Sep 27, 2005, at 08:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not that I think the duplex neg has anything to do with this particular issue but I can share this with regards to Cisco switches. My 170's both mate to a Cisco 3750 and I have them hard coated in the switch to full. I did have a negotia

Re: [SunRay-Users] [OT'ish, may be a rant] The "duplex/autoneg excuse"

2005-09-27 Thread Dave McGuire
On Sep 27, 2005, at 10:51 AM, Craig Bender wrote: Force the switch that your sun ray on to 100 full or put it on a 10/half hub. Watch the SR go to 10 half and exhibit the exact problems that were explained. Also, it's well documented that Cisco switches and Sun servers had a serious issue pe

Re: [SunRay-Users] [OT'ish, may be a rant] The "duplex/autoneg excuse" (was: JPEG artifacts)

2005-09-27 Thread {Darkavich} Steven Misrack
On Sep 27, 2005, at 05:24, Derek Konigsberg wrote: Why is it that everyone assumes this problem is so common? Is there a particular line (or lines) of switches that most Sun administrators use that have poortly designed auto-neg capabilities? (an issue that's never come up with any of

Re: [SunRay-Users] JPEG artifacts on screen with SRSS 3.1

2005-09-27 Thread {Darkavich} Steven Misrack
On Sep 27, 2005, at 02:26, Damiano ALBANI wrote: In fact, I have a very small *home* setup, comprised of only 1 SRSS 3.1 server on Linux Ubuntu and a SunRay 1. They are on the same switch, with very little other network traffic. Is there a debug option that I could enable to see why there is t

Re: [SunRay-Users] [OT'ish, may be a rant] The "duplex/autoneg excuse" (was: JPEG artifacts)

2005-09-27 Thread Dave McGuire
On Sep 27, 2005, at 8:24 AM, Derek Konigsberg wrote: You know, it's amazing just how many times people assume it must be a duplex and/or speed auto-negotiation issue whenever we have any sort of network performance issue in Sun hardware. Be it with Sun Rays, NFS being slow talking to something

RE: [SunRay-Users] [OT'ish, may be a rant] The "duplex/autonegexcuse"

2005-09-27 Thread David P. Roberts
I've seen problems with auto-negotiation between older Catalyst switches (5xxx) series and Sun server NICs. However IMHO, server NICs should never be allowed to auto-negotiate and always should be forced to a known setting - that the switch agrees with. If this ever fails, you've got problems to w

Re: [SunRay-Users] [OT'ish, may be a rant] The "duplex/autoneg excuse"

2005-09-27 Thread gwestermann
Not that I think the duplex neg has anything to do with this particular issue but I can share this with regards to Cisco switches. My 170's both mate to a Cisco 3750 and I have them hard coated in the switch to full. I did have a negotiation issue at first but that was to do with the fact that t

Re: [SunRay-Users] [OT'ish, may be a rant] The "duplex/autoneg excuse"

2005-09-27 Thread Craig Bender
Force the switch that your sun ray on to 100 full or put it on a 10/half hub. Watch the SR go to 10 half and exhibit the exact problems that were explained. Also, it's well documented that Cisco switches and Sun servers had a serious issue performing auto-neg correctly a few years back. Thin

Re: [SunRay-Users] JPEG artifacts on screen with SRSS 3.1

2005-09-27 Thread Jan M. STANKOVSKY
How's about utcapture (-r) to get a first glance on whats going on... Damiano ALBANI schrieb: --- Craig Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : Sounds like a duplex mismatch somewhere. Are you sure the DTU is running @ 100 Full duplex? What happens when you hit the three volume keys? Does it

[SunRay-Users] [OT'ish, may be a rant] The "duplex/autoneg excuse" (was: JPEG artifacts)

2005-09-27 Thread Derek Konigsberg
Sounds like a duplex mismatch somewhere. Are you sure the DTU is running @ 100 Full duplex? You know, it's amazing just how many times people assume it must be a duplex and/or speed auto-negotiation issue whenever we have any sort of network performance issue in Sun hardware. Be it with Sun

Re: [SunRay-Users] JPEG artifacts on screen with SRSS 3.1

2005-09-27 Thread Damiano ALBANI
--- Craig Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : > Sounds like a duplex mismatch somewhere. > > Are you sure the DTU is running @ 100 Full duplex? > What happens when > you hit the three volume keys? Does it say 100F? As I have a PC keyboard, I don't have these keys. However, when the SunRay boot