From: Barnhart, Troy (TBarnhart@RCRH.ORG)
Date: Wed Jan 14 2004 - 12:24:59 EST
I can speak directly to this as we are in the process of moving off
Enterasys in the Server room and the Wireclosets around the hospital.
Specifically, We are moving from Enterasys 9000's to Cisco 6500's in
the Server room. We have the autonegotiate problem on both types of switches.
(You know it's big out on the floors, when the secretaries on "Mahogany Row"
are makin' finger-pistols at the IS department employees...)
The newer Gigabit switches are working fairly well for Autonegotiate -
but in certain cases we are still hardcoding the 100Full.
We were (up until this past 6-8 months) an HP/Compaq shop - for both desktops
and servers (with a few AIX servers.) The problems came to our attention when
started our W2k to the desktops migration. Now, due to the HPaq changes, we're
changing to a full-IBM shop. And due to the move to Gigabit, we're changing over
to full-Cisco network.
fyi,
troy
Troy Barnhart, Sr. Systems Programmer,
tbarnhart@rcrh.org
Rapid City Regional Hospital,
Rapid City, South Dakota, 57701
ph: 605-719-8068 / fax: 605-719-4206
-----Original Message-----
From: cbaker@GOODYEAR.COM [mailto:cbaker@GOODYEAR.COM]
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 9:48 AM
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
Subject: Re: What's wrong with autonegotiate
Importance: High
Folks,
Thanks for the overwhelming reply to this question.
Could the issue be that Cisco is not talking the "preferred" way? Seems to
be a common thread in most of the replies. I believe Cisco 10/100BaseT
ports use a different negotiation method than Enterasys and other PCI NIC
cards (NWAY, I think).
Also, I am speaking of workstations, desktops, PC's, printers, etc. - Not
necessarily servers.
Does anyone have experience on non-Cisco equipment?
Christopher M. Baker
Senior Technical Support Analyst
DSE/TCO
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
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