Andrew,
Hmmm.. Thanks for the head's up. I had not heard of that scenario but I can see where it could happen.
I'll pass this on to Mark.
Again, thanks!
Best,
DD
>DD,
>
>I have heard of problems where the cards and the hub are both set to autonegotiate 10/100. The conversation between the cards and the hub goes something like:
>
>Card: Please, tell me what speed you'd like to talk at
>Hub: No, I insist, you tell me
>Card: That's very kind, but you're the hub - it's your call
>Hub: I couldn't possibly
>Card: ...
>
>etc...
>
>Setting either the cards or the hub to specify 100MBps can resolve the issue.
>
>Note that I've not ever experienced this problem myself (and am in fact running my switch and NICs all in AutoNegotiate mode) - I've just heard that some of the early 100MBps hardware had this problem.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Andrew
Best,
DD
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