Re: 100Mb/Full Duplex
I hope I understand your question. Donald Becker's web site
has a few utilities, 'mdiag' is one, that let you manually set
the speed. It worked for my pcmcia EEpro, but it does not work
for all cards.
*Tim Sailer wrote:
> Hi folks.
>
> I'm having some trouble, actually with a Cisco 6509 switch, but getting
> it to talk to 20 VALinux machines. My story:
>
> I have a rack of 20 machines needing to talk to a Pix firewall with
> gigbit interfaces on it. To do this, we set up a test rig using an Alteon
> switch with 1 gigabit interface and 24 100bT ports for the boxes.
> When we run in this mode, everything performs well. Now, we switch this
> over to the Cr^Hisco switch, and it all goes to hell. It seems like the
> 6509 doesn't negotiate with the EEPro100 NICs in the linux boxes. Errors
> out the butt, and the switch ports claim that they are talking 10/half
> when they should be talking 100/full.
>
> I've looked at the NIC driver source, but it's non-obvious, to me anyway,
> how to lock these puppies in 100/full. Any pointers?
>
> Thanks,
> Tim
>
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