Re: [nsp] GSR/Cat Gig-e problem

From: George Robbins (grr@shandakor.tharsis.com)
Date: Tue Oct 03 2000 - 19:38:51 EDT


IOS 12.0(11)S3 does support the "negotiation auto" clause, it's pretty
new, what shipped with our GSR's knew the syntax but displayed a message
to the effect that auto-negotiation was not yet supported.

It seems to work fine...

                                                        George

> From: Ramin K <ramin@badapple.net>
> Subject: Re: [nsp] GSR/Cat Gig-e problem
>
> I sent this to George only last night by accident, sorry George.
>
> I'm running 12.0(11)S3 which has the same problem. How new does your IOS
> have to be?
>
> In any case a
> set port negotiation <mod>/<port> disable
>
> on the switch fixed it. Turning on auto negotiation on the router didn't
> work for me.
>
> Ramin
>
> At 08:53 PM 10/2/00 -0400, George Robbins wrote:
> >You either need to upgrade the GSR to a recent IOS that supports
> >auto-negotiation and enable "negotitation auto" for the interface
> >or force the Cat into "fdx, up" mode... Been there, done that.
> >
> > George
> >
> > > Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 20:06:51 -0400
> > > From: Nick Bauer <nick@twtelecom.net>
> > > Subject: [nsp] GSR/Cat Gig-e problem
> > >
> > > I'm trying to get Gig-e up between my 2 Catalyst 6500's and a GSR using
> > > GBIC's. When I connect them together, the GSR has a Link light, but the
> > > Cat does not. When I hard loop the Cat, it's link light comes on. I know
> > > my fiber is good between the two, because its the same fiber I loop up
> > > the Cat with. Has anyone else experienced anything like this?
> > >
> > > -Nick
>
>
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