Subject: Re: Netgear gigabit GA621 fibre interface problems
To: Michael Graff <explorer@flame.org>
From: Dave Tyson <Dave.Tyson@liverpool.ac.uk>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/10/2002 21:50:57
On 10 Dec 2002, Michael Graff wrote:

>Dave Tyson <Dave.Tyson@liverpool.ac.uk> writes:
>
>> 'ifconfig gsip0 media 1000baseSX' reports no errors, however while the
>> card link light comes on, the link is dead as far as the catalyst is
>> concerned. An 'ifconfig gsip0' reports:
>
>What does "ifconfig gsip0 media 1000baseSX mediaopt full-duplex" do?

It doesn't complain! and it would appear to do the right thing:

# ifconfig gsip0
gsip0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        capabilities=7<IP4CSUM,TCP4CSUM,UDP4CSUM>
        enabled=0
        address: 00:40:f4:29:5e:d1
        media: Ethernet 1000baseSX full-duplex
        status: no carrier
        inet 10.0.0.10 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.0.255
        inet6 fe80::240:f4ff:fe29:5ed1%gsip0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1

Still looks like there may be a problem as there is no carrier. I'll
have a poke about tomorrow, but the fibres were known to be good and the
port on the 6500 has also been tested elsewhere.

>
>And, what does "ifconfig -m gspi0" say?
>
# ifconfig -m gsip0
gsip0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        capabilities=7<IP4CSUM,TCP4CSUM,UDP4CSUM>
        enabled=0
        address: 00:40:f4:29:5e:d1
        media: Ethernet 1000baseSX
        status: no carrier
        supported Ethernet media:
                media none
                media 1000baseSX
                media 1000baseSX mediaopt full-duplex
                media autoselect
        inet 10.0.0.10 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.0.255
        inet6 fe80::240:f4ff:fe29:5ed1%gsip0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1

Doh! I should have thought of this! Must be lack of beer...

Thanks,
Dave

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