Subject: Re: bge sending garbage frames
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.org>
From: Matthias Scheler <tron@zhadum.org.uk>
List: current-users
Date: 11/09/2005 22:16:25
In article <19BA96F3-0094-458A-BBA0-7FE4CF657B1D@dtcc.edu>,
	Chris Tribo <ctribo@dtcc.edu> writes:
> If I go from 10base to auto, it works, and if I step down from 100 to  
> 10 in any fashion it works, it's only going from 10 to 100 forced  
> that causes it to freak out. I can't log into the switch so I don't  
> know what exactly is happening.

You can *not* use auto negotiation on one side and forced speed on the
other and expect that to work. That is a broken setup.

> Any ideas?

Yes, leave auto negotiation turned on or configure the switch to the
same forced speed as the network interface.

May I ask why you don't simply use auto negotiation?

	Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://scheler.de/~matthias/