Greetings, I am working on creating a GNU/Linux HA cluster and have a (non-gig) crossover cable connecting eth2 on both nodes. The question I have is how do cards like this auto-negotiate. They are negotiating to 10/half whereas I would expect them to negotiate to 100/full. Some details: Debian GNU/Linux Etch # uname -a Linux squash 2.6.18-6-686 #1 SMP Thu May 8 07:34:27 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux The NICs on both nodes are 3Com 10/100: Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 6c) Subsystem: 3Com Corporation 3C905C-TX Fast Etherlink for PC Management NIC Here are the results of 'mii-tool'. node1# mii-tool -v eth2 eth2: no autonegotiation, 10baseT-HD, link ok product info: vendor 00:10:18, model 23 rev 4 basic mode: autonegotiation enabled basic status: autonegotiation complete, link ok capabilities: 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD 10baseT-FD 10baseT-HD advertising: 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD 10baseT-FD 10baseT-HD flow-control link partner: 10baseT-HD node2# mii-tool -v eth2 eth2: link ok product info: vendor 00:10:18, model 23 rev 4 basic mode: autonegotiation enabled basic status: link ok capabilities: 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD 10baseT-FD 10baseT-HD advertising: 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD 10baseT-FD 10baseT-HD flow-control Here are the results of 'mii-diag'. node1# mii-diag eth2 Basic registers of MII PHY #24: 3000 782d 0040 6174 05e1 0021 0000 0000. Basic mode control register 0x3000: Auto-negotiation enabled. You have link beat, and everything is working OK. Your link partner is generating 10baseT link beat (no autonegotiation). End of basic transceiver information. node2# mii-diag eth2 Basic registers of MII PHY #24: 3000 780d 0040 6174 05e1 0000 0000 0000. Basic mode control register 0x3000: Auto-negotiation enabled. You have link beat, and everything is working OK. Your link partner does not do autonegotiation, and this transceiver type does not report the sensed link speed. End of basic transceiver information. So why are the results of 'mii-tool' and 'mii-diag' different (I would expect the same)? Is it possible for these types of cards to autonegotiate to 100/full? How? TIA, -- Matt Zagrabelny - mzagrabe@xxxxxxxxx - (218) 726 8844 University of Minnesota Duluth Information Technology Systems & Services PGP key 1024D/84E22DA2 2005-11-07 Fingerprint: 78F9 18B3 EF58 56F5 FC85 C5CA 53E7 887F 84E2 2DA2 He is not a fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. -Jim Elliot
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