Subject: Re: 3com cards and cisco 1900 catalists
To: Reinoud <Reinoud.Koornstra@ibb.net>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 08/02/2000 14:14:35
On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 08:23:17AM +0200, Reinoud wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am walking into the following oddnesses.
> When i have 3com 3c905b ethernet cards in the machines and i put them on
> media autoselect, then at the cisco 1900 catalists i can see many
> allignment, fcs errors and collision fragments.
> Oh yes, the machines are connected to cisco 1900 catalists.
> The machines are x86 machines.
> However, when i put them for example on 10baseT, then not so much is
> wrong
> and i dont see that much errors. 

Looks like you have a full-duplex/half-duplex mismatch between the
3com and the switch.
earlier cisco are know to have problems with NWAY autoneg, I guess that's it.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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