Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 10:22:59 -0800 From: "David Smithson" <david-s@foundation-i.com> To: <freebsd-net@freebsd.org> Subject: Gigabit troubles Message-ID: <4FB6DCB8FA515F49AAE50827A60D42CD8C473F@mail-01.foundation-i.com>
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Hi all. I thought I'd share this with you quickly. I finally found a solution to my gigabit connectivity problems. I have a Netgear GA-622T connected to an Asante FriendlyNet switch. When I would bring the interface to and UP state, the port would shutdown on the switch. I tried everything I could think of. Finally I called Asante -- which is what I should have done in the first place. And Engineer named Al told me that my cable was too short (4-5 ft.). I said wtf?! What do you mean too short? Then he explained why it matters. I'm not an electrical engineer, so I won't even attempt to explain it here. Sure enough, I made a longer (10 ft.) cable and for **** sake, it worked! This may not be news to some of you, but I'm used to 100 megabit ethernet networks where cables are sometimes too long (attenuation is high), but never too short. -- David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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