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Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote: |
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> Frank, |
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> You are not supposed to statically configure hubs and switches. I |
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> don't know what the problem is - however, please be sure that the |
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> hub/switch is set to auto-sense. If you cannot get a connection |
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> established that way, please try the cable etc. I would also recommend |
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> following the other suggestion of emerging the later tools. |
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What Joshua says. I missed that in the original email. Linux more so |
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than Solaris, which isn't that great either, seems to go out of it's way |
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to get the wrong setting when you hard set a switch port to full duplex. |
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Don't know if that's a switch thing or a Linux thing. Setting auto |
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negotiate works best these days though there is quite a bit of |
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documentation that says the opposite from 4-6 years ago when that wasn't |
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always the case. |
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kashani |
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