[Bioclusters] Re: Can't run full duplex on the xserve (fwd)

[andy law (RI)]

Victor,

From my experience as a software guy trying to get my mac attached to our mostly windows network, I know that having the router set to full-duplex and forcing my mac to full-duplex at startup definitely works. By all accounts from the hardware folks, having the switch set up any other way causes problems that are hard to debug for their windows PCs, so they just go with that and then if they get a problem they know it is in the way that the PC is configured. Obviously, your mileage may vary, and as I said earlier, networks are not really my forte.

Good luck.

Later,

Andy

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ruotti, Victor [mailto:vruotti@mcw.edu]
> Sent: 21 July 2003 15:59
> To: 'bioclusters@bioinformatics.org'
> Subject: RE: [Bioclusters] Re: Can't run full duplex on the 
> xserve (fwd)
> 
> 
> Andy:
> It should work either way. One question, I am connection to a 
> CISCO switch
> which is set up to be in auto mode (full or half duplex). Do 
> I have to force
> the switch to go in full duplex for the Mac to follow?
> 
> Thanks,
> Victor Ruotti
> Medical College of Wisconsin
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: andy law (RI) [mailto:andy.law@bbsrc.ac.uk]
> Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 2:51 AM
> To: 'bioclusters@bioinformatics.org'
> Subject: RE: [Bioclusters] Re: Can't run full duplex on the 
> xserve (fwd)
> 
> 
> Don't know if this is helpful or just plain stupid, but are 
> the ifconfig
> command options case-sensitive.
> 
> On my startup script (on a desktop, not an XServe) I have ...
> 
> ifconfig en0 media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex
> 
> (Note the capital 'T' in 100baseTX)
> 
> and it works for me.
> 
> Don't forget that it needs to go in the startup script or it 
> will reset
> every time you reboot.
> 
> One other thing, what network performance are you getting? 
> Just that if your
> XServe is half-duplex and the router is trying full-duplex then (in my
> limited experience) everything will run grindingly slowly 
> whereas if your
> router is only doing half-duplex then there will be no 
> problem (i.e. do both
> ends think the connection is half-duplex, or just the XServe?)
> 
> Later,
> 
> Andy
> 
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ruotti, Victor [mailto:vruotti@mcw.edu]
> > Sent: 19 July 2003 01:26
> > To: 'bioclusters '
> > Subject: RE: [Bioclusters] Re: Can't run full duplex on the 
> > xserve (fwd)
> > 
> > 
> >  Hi James,
> > Thanks. I did try 
> > sudo ifconfig en0 media 100basetX mediaopt full-duplex
> > I got the following error:
> > ifconfig: SIOCSIFMEDIA: Input/output error
> > 
> > Do have any idea why my card wont let me go to full duplex? I 
> > am connected
> > to a CISCO 6513 which is of course capable of full duplexing.
> > 
> > Victor
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: J.W. Bizzaro
> > To: bioclusters
> > Sent: 7/18/2003 5:33 PM
> > Subject: [Bioclusters] Re: Can't run full duplex on the xserve (fwd)
> > 
> >  <<Re: [BioDarwin] [Fwd: [Bioclusters] Can't run full duplex on the
> > xserve]>> 
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