Subject: Re: Vlans with fxp nics (closure)
To: NetBSD Current Users <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Peter Eisch <peter@boku.net>
List: current-users
Date: 06/17/2003 08:53:02
Just appending to the list of ones I force already:
cisco
*all remaining systems*
Thanks,
on 6/16/03 11:48 PM, Chuck Yerkes at chuck+nbsd@2003.snew.com wrote:
> Chant the matra with me:
> Autoselect is bad, I will always force my interfaces to what
> I want.
>
> Just sing thing in the shower, on the can, as you drive to work.
>
> Quoting Peter Eisch (peter@boku.net):
>>
>> It was ultimately an issue of duplex. The netbsd nics were set to
>> autoselect, as was the switch. Switch said "Full" and I have no idea what
>> the nics were other than how ifconfig reports autoselect. I ultimately
>> hard-coded the whole collection of ports and nics to 100/Full.
>>
>> It was interesting that the 3c905s/ex didn't bring up the FlowControl on the
>> switch as enabled while the i8255x/fxp's did. So I'm back in my happy place
>> again.
>>
>> I'm painfully aware of the issue with cisco cat's, but for some reason that
>> hadn't occurred to me here.
>>
>> Thanks all,
>>
>> peter
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