[CentOS] how to enable Flow Control on CentOS?

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
> On 7/7/11, Rudi Ahlers <Rudi at softdux.com> wrote:
>> Yes, I figured that much, but I don't know what to look for.
>>
>> Some of the servers are Intel and other are SuperMicro, all using
>> onboard NIC's. The Dell Windows servers connected to the same switch
>> doesn't have this issue though
>
> I had a similar experience but on Windows machines. Connecting to a
> DLink DES or DGS 1024, on two of the machines, having autoneg =
> similar sympton as if the network cable is broken. Setting the NICs to
> 100Mbps only fixed the problem. The common thing here seems to be
> DLink switch and some other factor that effectively causes autoneg to
> fail without fallback.

Another quirky thing we ran into was having to change some cables. The
newer cables allowed gigabit, and the older ones did not.

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