adapter problem

[monman]

I am currently testing a Gigabyte adapter and have noticed that when performing 'entstat -d en2' on the card, the link status reveals 'down' ; autoneg 'disabled' and transmit/receive flow : Disabled. The transmit and receive stats though are increasing through usage ?

Smit reveals that the card is up and is set to AutoNeg. I've checked also with ifconfig which reveals 'up' and furthermore I can ping it from our other workstations.

Any ideas why I get these reports from entstat>adapter specific stats ?

Thanks

Mon

 

[Yegolev]

Short answer is gigabit doesn't work on AIX, much like autonegotiate. We have been working on gigabit for many moons but so far it is not usable by us. Once we and IBM get it working, we will move to gigabit because our LAN is pretty swamped. I'll try to remember to keep you updated, but until we find a fix I suggest devoting your effort to other projects, if possible.

Unless you have some ideas. =)

 

[bjverzal]

I've got Gigabit working on a S80 and H80. Also, I plugged an S7A and 3 H50's together with Gbit at a previous employer. It works fine for me.

BV

 

[gheist]

monman : please rewind this discussion back some week - there was many responses on previos gigabit post

 

[Yegolev]

Oh well must be something in our network (what a surprise). What sort of switches, etc. are you using? Ever mix AIX and NT/2K in giga net?

Our AIX servers actually have their own net so we don't clog the "public" lan with our silly data xfer, but maybe the network team is not interested in setting us up for gigabit. We still use the same switches everybody else does, I think. Plus we communicate to NT/2K boxen a lot.

Actually I think our internal backbone is gigabit, not sure since I try to stay out of the network area. I have enough trouble with AIX. =)

 

[monman]

We too have a seperate Gigabit 'backup only' network. There are 10 HPs and 3 IBM's connecting to a Cisco 4006 switch.
All HP's transmit at 'proven' 1000MB whereas all three IBM's are not transferring at that speed even though 2 of them state that they do in entstat. The speeds recorded indicate 100mb speeds and not 1Gb. The third IBM i the one as described in my first posting.

cheers,

Mon