From owner-freebsd-net Thu Dec 13 10:19:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mail-01.foundation-i.com (mail-01.foundation-i.com [206.111.21.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EE6D37B41B for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 10:19:14 -0800 (PST) content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Gigabit troubles X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.5762.3 Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 10:22:59 -0800 Message-ID: <4FB6DCB8FA515F49AAE50827A60D42CD8C473F@mail-01.foundation-i.com> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Gigabit troubles Thread-Index: AcGEAzGrd/Cu/06uT7G2uWISI/Ibrg== From: "David Smithson" To: Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi all. I thought I'd share this with you quickly. I finally found a = solution to my gigabit connectivity problems. I have a Netgear GA-622T = connected to an Asante FriendlyNet switch. When I would bring the = interface to and UP state, the port would shutdown on the switch. I = tried everything I could think of. Finally I called Asante -- which is = what I should have done in the first place. And Engineer named Al told = me that my cable was too short (4-5 ft.). I said wtf?! What do you = mean too short? Then he explained why it matters. I'm not an = electrical engineer, so I won't even attempt to explain it here. Sure = enough, I made a longer (10 ft.) cable and for **** sake, it worked! = This may not be news to some of you, but I'm used to 100 megabit = ethernet networks where cables are sometimes too long (attenuation is = high), but never too short. -- David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message