Re: (ASCEND) Full-Duplex on Max6000

[Richard Safran <rsafran@fullwave.net>]

At 11:42 AM 3/17/99 +0000, you wrote:
>I was looking through the mailing list archives for a definitive answer 
>on this, and couldn't find one.
>
>Here's the score:
>
>Several Max 6000's running into Cisco Catalyst 2924/2916 
>switches.
>
>If the Catalyst ports are set to auto-sensing, I get 100Base-T half-
>duplex by default.
>
>If I force the Catalyst port into full-duplex, and reboot the Max, the 
>Max still comes up half-duplex, 99% of the time. Only once did one 
>of the Maxen correctly detect the full-duplex. Next time I reloaded 
>that box, it came up half-duplex.
>
>So, has anybody figured out how to get a Max6000 into 100Base-T 
>full-duplex reliably yet?
>
>Has anyone actually sent a feature request into Ascend to have 
>Ethernet port speed and duplex settings built in as a twiddle in the 
>config menus?
>
>Thanks!
>Mike
>-- 
>Mike Hughes - Network Services      mike@dircon.net
>Tel: +44 181 297 0300               http://www.dircon.net/
>Fax: +44 181 463 9820

We have two 6000s.  Mounted in the same rack, plugged into the same Linksys
10/100 switch, using identical patch cables.  One gets FD, the other is HD.
If I had time, I'd probably be real annoyed.

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