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Re: 100Base-Tx card
From:
Richard Gambrell <[log in to unmask]>
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Richard Gambrell <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Fri, 10 Aug 2001 13:40:55 -0400
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It may be useful to note here for others that auto sense can fail
or just be wrong either way, on the network port (hub/switch) and/or
on the NIC!

Richard

Chuck Ryan wrote:
>
> We have a winner :>
>
> Forcing the switch port to Full Duplex did the trick.
>
> Thanks :>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Greg Skvorak [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 2:00 PM
> > To: Chuck Ryan
> > Subject: Re: Re: 100Base-Tx card
> >
> >
> > Chuck,
> > I ran into a case recently where the BT100 card was defined
> > in NMMGR as full
> > duplex w/o auto sensing. It was the switch that was the
> > problem for me. The
> > CISCO network person set the switch into "auto sense" mode
> > and the HP3000
> > wouldn't communicate. He insisted that meant that the card we
> > had wasn't
> > working properly. I convinced him to set the port to 100mb at
> > which point
> > the HP3000 was fine on the network. I imagine it is some
> > mis-communication
> > issue between the switch and the response (or lack of) that
> > it may get from
> > the HP3000 BT100 card.
> >
> > If you haven't tried the above, it may prove worthwhile as it
> > doesn't take a
> > reboot of the network on the HP, but merely the change in the
> > switch to
> > force it to 100mb.
> > Greg Skvorak
> > Beechglen Development, Inc.
> > Cincinnati, Ohio
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Chuck Ryan" <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 1:29 PM
> > Subject: Re: 100Base-Tx card
> >
> >
>
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