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It's called testing requirements per the spec, and most of the vendors don't bother. Ship it... M ----- Original Message ----- From: Mike Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Friday, July 23, 2004 5:47 pm Subject: Re: [TriLUG] NFS performance issues - Solved > Kevin Flanagan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I did some testing today, apparently it was the Nortel switch > and the HP > > onboard NIC interaction. I have seen a lot of cases with the Nortel > > gear we have where setting the NIC to auto doesn't work right, > you have > > to set it to 100Mb/Full Duplex by hand. > > > > Is it just me, or does this sound like crap to others? Why do > we have > > auto if some combinations of vendor gear don't work right? I > never had > > this problem with Cisco switches and HP servers. > > You got lucky. I've seen this problem with Cisco switches before. > It's > annoying as hell, but it does happen. Auto speed and duplex settings > are a negotiation, and unfortunately doesn't always work. Frankly, > you're lucky that this is the first time you've run into it. > > Mike > -- > "Spare me your space-age technobabble Atilla The Hun!" -- Zapp > Brannigan > GNUPG Key fingerprint = ACD2 2F2F C151 FB35 B3AF C821 89C4 DF9A > 5DDD 95D1 > GNUPG Key = http://www.enoch.org/mike/mike.pubkey.asc > > -- > TriLUG mailing list : > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilugTriLUG Organizational > FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
