Re: RH 9.0 Kickstart Network Issues

[John Beamon <jbeamon franklinamerican com>]

Jason Kohles wrote:
> On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 09:44:47AM -0400, Lance Rochelle wrote:
>
> > We actually have the same type of issue, but it may not be related to
> > kickstart.  The problem we are having is that when the machine is forced
> > to 100mb full duplex and the switch (especially Cisco, and Foundry) are
> > set to autonegotiate, they never seem to negotiate properly.  The fix that
> > we did was to force the swtich the 100fdx and force it on the card as
> > well.
>
> This is the nature of auto-negotiation, if you force it you have to force
> it at both ends, otherwise the end attempting to negotiate will just fall
> back to whatever it's default is, usually 10/half.

Definitely auto-negotiation.  I'm having the same issue here with a Dell 
PowerConnect switch of ours, that I restart certain network services a 
couple minutes after any reboot because the box comes up before the port 
on the switch does.  I'm pursuing a correction on the switch, of course.

The 3c509 cards are GOLDEN.  Don't ever throw them away.  Ship them to 
me if you have to!  I purposefully put those cards in low-end boxes and 
test servers as often as I can because they are just so bulletproof. 
They come up without declaring IO and IRQ options in modules.conf, and 
they run clean whether I set them for FD or HD operation.  I love 'em!

-j