[K12OSN] Doing the Pivot Root - befuddling

[Les Mikesell]

On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 14:55, R. Scott Belford wrote:

> Thanks for the input and empathy.  It is exasperating but making more sense.  
> FWIW, several schools here have the amer.com switches in production, and they 
> are great.  Several schools here have trendnets, the 48 port model, and they 
> work great.  It seems to be a function of certain switches and the 
> negotiation between the gig port and the 10/100 bank.

You can check the server uplink with mii-tool or ethtool.  If the switch
is managed, you normally want to leave the negotiation settings on
auto - otherwise the other end won't negotiate either and you have
to force both sides to match.

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  Les Mikesell
    les at futuresource.com