From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 2 5:40: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.utexas.edu (wb3-a.mail.utexas.edu [128.83.126.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BE74137B5C1 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 05:39:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from oscars@mail.utexas.edu) Received: (qmail 6506 invoked by uid 0); 2 Aug 2000 12:39:50 -0000 Received: from dhcp-199-210.dsl.utexas.edu (HELO osilva-home.mail.utexas.edu) (128.83.199.210) by umbs-smtp-3 with SMTP; 2 Aug 2000 12:39:50 -0000 Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20000802073900.00af0600@mail.utexas.edu> X-Sender: oscars@mail.utexas.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 07:41:31 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Reinoud.Koornstra@ibb.net From: Oscar Ricardo Silva Subject: Re: 3com cards and cisco 1900 catalists In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sounds like a duplex mismatch issue to me. How are the ports on the Catalyst 1900 set? Auto? What does the port on the Catalyst report the connection as being? I have many 3C905 nics and all connected to Cisco Catalyst switches (although most are connected to other type of switches). Oscar At 08:24 AM 8/2/00 +0200, Reinoud, you wrote: >Hi, > >I am walking into the following oddnesses. >When i have 3com 3c905b ethernet cards in the machines and i put them on >media autoselect, then at the cisco 1900 catalists i can see many >allignment, fcs errors and collision fragments. >Oh yes, the machines are connected to cisco 1900 catalists. >The machines are x86 machines. >However, when i put them for example on 10baseT, then not so much is >wrong >and i dont see that much errors. >So autoselect doesnt seem to work fine on a 3com card with a cisco switch. >Also traffic is going slower when it's set to autoselect. > >Now when i try this with intel ether express cards, i dont have these >problems when looking on the cisco switch. >Does anyone else noticed such as strange stuff? >Would it be that 3com cards dont work fine with cisco switches or is it >something else? >For right now i am thinking to replace all the 3com cards with intel ether >express card. I believe they also perform better. >Any suggestions? >Bye, > >Reinoud. > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message