[K12OSN] duplex problem with new switch

[Patrick Mohr]

Gentgeen wrote:

>Recently we had a switch go down in the school, so the our tech guy had
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>to take the schools one out of my room and I have to use an older
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>donated one.  Since then I have run into a small problem.  
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>First I want to appogize for some of the missing details, I forgot to
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>write everything down that I needed before I left school.  It is
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>graduation night, and I needed to get home, so I could get back :-)
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>The switch I am now using is an older Cysco switch.  One 100MB port (for
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>server) and 24 10MB port for the terminal.  I use 7 of the 24 ports. 
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>The switch is a Catalyst (sp??) model, and I do not have the necessary
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>wires or information to change any of the current settings.  Almost all
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>of the terminals are using 10MB NICs, so when we made the trade, I
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>really did not thing there would be much of a slow down, even though the
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>schools switch was all 100MB ports.  But there where some major
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>slowdowns.  When I checked the logs, there was a lot of crap repeated
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>over and over again, all starting with something about the duplex
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>setting on eth0, the card that connects to the switch.
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>After some research, I found that if removed the module, then ran
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>'insmod 3c59x debug=1 options=4 full_duplex=1' everthing worked fine
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>again.   Unfortunatly, this affects both NICs, the onboard eth1 and the
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>PCI card eth0, and I do not know what kind of crazyness this may be
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>causing to the schools network.  I can't change either of the cards
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>since one is on-board and school only has one kind of PCI NICs  I also
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>do not want to have to go thought the process evert time I restart the
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>server.  So I edited the one line in '/etc/modules.conf' file to say
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>'alias eth0 3c59x debug=1 options=4 full_duplex=1' thinking that would
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>work, but it didn't.
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>So at this point I am lost.  Where can I but those options so that it
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>works on boot-up, but does not mess with eth1?
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To answer your first question put your line ie "insmod 3c59x debug=1 
options=4 full_duplex=1" in /etc/rc.d/rc.local