I know we have at least 40 Sun Ultra 10s running 100FDX to Cisco Catalyst
Ethernet ports happily running over 18Mbit/s each.
So Sun's drivers _do_ work with Cisco products at 100Mbit/s FDX.
Deepak Jain
AiNET
On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Pierre-Etienne Chartier wrote:
> Hi,
> I think it's not just a problem of auto-negociation. I've had the
> same problems with Sun Ultra 10s and 100FDX simply didn't work, even set
> manually.
> This could be attributed to Sun's drivers, though I'm not sure...
>
> Thanks,
> Pierre-Etienne Chartier
>
>
> >+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=++=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+==+=<
> > If there was an information revolution, it's over: <
> > information won. <
> > -Diana Lady Dougan <
> >--------------------------------------------------------------------<
> >Pierre-Etienne Chartier <
> >Systems Analyst, Logibro, inc. <
> >+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=++=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+<
>
> On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Wade Williams wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > > "Am I doing something wrong? The very same Sun (as I've pointed out later)
> > > autonegotiates very nicely with 3com switch, meaning that there is NOTHING
> > > wrong with NIC's drivers. So I make an assumption that there is something
> > > wrong with the catalyst switch, as it's behaving erratically in
> > > my opinion"
> >
> >
> > While I'm no expert in it, I've been told that when autonegotiation started,
> > there were no standards. Although there are some standards defined, I think
> > they might still leave a lot of room for interpretation.
> >
> > The end result is, it's always hit and miss. That Sun may work perfectly
> > with the 3Com, but you may hook a PC up that has a brand XYZ NIC in it and
> > it might not work with the 3Com but may work flawlessly with the Cisco.
> >
> > In short, rather than chasing around trying to find the perfect NIC's that
> > work with the perfect switches, I think most people just set both ends
> > manually and go work on something else.
> >
> > Wade
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Wade Williams "Put your message in a modem, and throw
> > Systems Engineer, CCIE #3373 it in the cyber sea."
> > Cisco Systems, Inc. - N. Peart
> > Brentwood, TN
> > 615-221-2918
> > wwilliam@cisco.com
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >
>
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