Well, In Steve's case, since he uses a transceiver on 3000 end, it most
probably means he is using the MFIO board AUI port which is 10BT,
HALF-Duplex.  So, setting switch port to 10BT, Half-Duplex may help !

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"Greg Cagle" <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message
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> "Jerry Leslie" <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message
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> > =?iso-8859-1?q?Steve=20Belkacem?= ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
> > : Hi All,
> > :
> > : We seem to be having a problem with slow network
> > : connections, both LAN and WAN.
> > :
> > I'm primarily a VMS person, but my experience has been that you need
> > to set the speed on both the switch and the host to fixed settings
> > such as 100 mbs, full duplex.
> >
> > Autonegotiation between switches and NICs seems to be something that
> > doesn't work 100% of the time.
> >
> > YMMV,
> >
> > --Jerry Leslie     (my opinions are strictly my own)
>
> Absolutely correct - the NUMBER ONE performance problem I see with
customers
> is auto-negotiation of full duplex on 100 mbs switches. As far as I can
> tell it NEVER works, no matter who makes the switch or the NIC. Best to
> hardwire full duplex everywhere.
>
> --
> Greg Cagle
> gregc at gregcagle dot com
>
>

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