Thanks to
Dennis Martens, Rick Anderson, Douglas Palmer, Joe Fletcher, and Daniel
Luechtefeld for their speedy replies.
I remembered reading that Sun's hme's weren't the best at autonegotiating
with some switches. The fix is to turn off autonegotiation at the interface.
Dennis' /etc/system output summarizes best:
* set network interface parameters to allow full duplex
set hme:hme_adv_autoneg_cap=0
set hme:hme_adv_100fdx_cap=1
set hme:hme_adv_100hdx_cap=0
set hme:hme_adv_10fdx_cap=0
set hme:hme_adv_10hdx_cap=0
*
Thanks again,
Sean Quaint
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sean Quaint [mailto:squaint@mediaone.net]
> Sent: 06 October 2000 02:52
> To: sun managers
> Subject: hme problems with new switch
>
> Hello,
>
> I have a couple of rooms of Ultra5's running Solaris 7 and 8. Until
> today they've been connected via 10 Mbit hubs. We just procurred two
> new 10/100 SMC switches for them. After plugging the hosts directly
> into the new switch I noticd that they continue to autonegotiate the
> 100MB FDX connection, filling up /var/adm/messages with syslog
> messages. I've tried halting the hosts, power-cycling the switch, and
> so on, to no avail. The only host that doesn't do this is my one Sol 8
> host (it stopped after rebooting).
>
> Does anyone have any idea why this is happening? It seems I've heard
> something about hme problems with switches, but I can't recall the
> details.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Sean Quaint
>
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