On 16-Jan-2003 at 12:36:12 Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 12:31:09PM -0000, John Horne wrote: >>I've tried using 'ethtool', which sets the duplex, but once the >> server reboots the nic goes back to half duplex - probably due to >> autonegotiation, which also seems to default to being on. > > post-install tg3 ethtool <whatever> > in /etc/modules.conf > Duh! Of course, silly me :-) > but if autonegotiation yields half duplex, there probably is a > reason for that, overriding it is usually a bad idea. > The nic's are connected to a cisco switch which currently autonegotiates. We'll set both ends (switch and nic) to 100/full and see if it works okay. If not, then yes there is a problem which may be why half duplex is being set. John. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ John Horne, University of Plymouth, UK Tel: +44 (0)1752 233914 E-mail: jhorne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx PGP key available from public key servers
