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

2005-09-28 Thread Gavin Westermann
I could be wrong here as I am not as techincal as I used to be but enabling port fast speeds the recovery transition from spanning tree's blocked state. Normally it will go through two other phases, listening and maybe learning, not sure. Port fast moves it from a full span tree blocked state

[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] [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.

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

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

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] [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

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

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 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