On Thursday 19 October 2006 17:25, Mark Kent wrote: > > I had to lock-down the network card to 10mbit full-duplex. It was > > autoselecting 100mbit half-duplex. > > Hope that helps someone... sometime... > > Autoselecting 100/half probably means that the link auto-negotiation > failed, as that is the default. It might fail because the other side was > nailed down, perhaps to 10/full. That seems like an unlikely choice... but > one reason why it might be nailed at 10mbits is because someone before you > couldn't get it to run well at 100mbits and discovered that setting it to > 10 was a "solution." If that was the case, I'ld guess that the cable > between the switch and the server is lengthy and that it was not tied down > in the prescribed order (wO, O, wG, Bl, wBl, G, wBr, Br) [or swap O and G].
Hi, Locking it to 10/full was what the MCI technician recommended after I opened a ticket because the line was dropping to 500Kbs up/down. This was a 4Mbit up/down line burstable to 10. They said it was not possible to increase the capacity of this line, so I guess they are using their old 10Mbit equipment for this. Since locking it like they asked speed has been fine, and the cable is a 2 meter factory made one plugging into the datacenter patch-panel, so I don't think that's a problem... Thanks for the tips though. Richard _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://openser.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users
