I have a Net4801-60 (256MB RAM) with OpenBSD 4.2 that sometimes gets no link with either cross-over or straight-through cables.
Sometimes it's enough to simply switch to a different cable of the same type. Other times, even though the cables are good (have used them with these and other devices) there is no link anyway. Other times, the port will work with those cables but only when connected to a different device. I haven't changed the system configuration in months and the problem seems to have only appeared in the last weeks. The link status lights on the Ethernet ports are normally are green (100baseT), but individual ports (usually only 1-3 of the 5) will go to yellow (10baseT) and stay that way. Or be off all together. What causes the ports to go offline completely? ifconfig up/down doesn't change anything. Though, sometimes switching from a cross-over to straight-through cable (or vice versa) fixes the problem. Are there situations in which the status must be forced? -Lars _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
