On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 3:22 PM, R - elists lists07@abbacomm.net wrote:
rudi
when migrating some rackmount HP servers running Centos4 from hard coded 100 meg fdx to auto gigE that we had to
- remove this from our ifcfg-ethX files
ETHTOOL_OPTS="speed 100 duplex full autoneg off"
I don't see those options listed:
root@zaxen01:[~]$ cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 # Intel Corporation 82566DC Gigabit Network Connection DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=none ONBOOT=yes HWADDR=00:1c:c0:75:19:ee TYPE=Ethernet IPADDR=196.34.x.x NETMASK=255.255.255.224 GATEWAY=196.34.x.x
- proper CAT6 wiring
already done :)
- plug into the copper gigE switchport
already done :)
- reboot
tried that already
using Cisco though...
I can't change a switch just for this. The other (Dell + Windows) servers on the exact same switch doesn't give me this problem.
did not find a decent plug n play solution
i.e., did not waste a lot of time looking for solutions other than the obvious cisco and centos config or network down and up interface commands
- rh