Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 07:41:31 -0500 From: Oscar Ricardo Silva <oscars@mail.utexas.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Reinoud.Koornstra@ibb.net Subject: Re: 3com cards and cisco 1900 catalists Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20000802073900.00af0600@mail.utexas.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.1000802082345.14534A-100000@ux1.ibb.net>
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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
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