View Full Version : 3com 905 against Cisco 3600
mp3turbo
07-20-2004, 06:42 AM
hello folks,
not StarOS question, but little annoyance for me : auto-negotiation was causing troubles, when it was switched off, everything works smoothly. With auto-nego, we had like 200kB/s transfer rate across router - without, 10MB/s...
WTF?
bye, mp3turbo.
Can you provide us some more information, such as the versions you tried, and whether this occurs with the later v2.00.3b3 release?
Thanks.
mp3turbo
07-20-2004, 12:22 PM
hi tony,
this is not problem of StarOS nor StarOS was used on that machine - it was just nice plain Linux box (Debian I think). My question was aimed at hardware Network Interface Card / Router cooperation.
btw, can you tell me, what version of 3Com driver do you have in your system? I don't have spare machine handy to find out. You can PM me.
thnx, mp3turbo.
Fedde
07-20-2004, 12:41 PM
cisco as alwats, i have seen it on alot of networks using cisco. Auto-negoatiation at cisco with other brands does not work very well. I've seen it on media converters, lan's, wan's and it can be a pain in the ass sometime.
Have not looked for it, but is it possible to lock it in star-os? of not, it's certenly something to ask for :)
Fredrik B
jlawrence
07-20-2004, 02:50 PM
Auto-neg is one of those standards that isn't standard.
I've had auto-neg problems with almost all network vendors -3com, cisco, allied-telesyn and various cheapo no brand devices - at sometime or other.
Given the choice, I always use intel nic's - don't know why but I've never had a problem with those. Also if you use the e100 (Intel) driver then vlans work correctly with clients set to mtu 1500.