Solaris

The autonegotiation is probably failing because of the same hardware problem that's causing your packet loss.

It's broke.

Effectively saying, "WORK!!! **** YOU!!!" with forced configuration settings isn't going to change that.

+1 !

Will try that. Thanks.

I have seen this problem when interface choose a lower duplex setting. Generally i use this simple trick.
1. enable auto neg with all options enabled
2. disable all capabilities except adv_1000fdx_cap.

This will make interface run auto-neg but it will not negotiate anything below 1000Full.
I have more than 10 machines running like this. no issue since past 9 months .
Just make sure to add a start up script to make these changes available after reboot. or if you are comfortable you can edit /etc/system file.

Hope it helps.

Hi mtomar,

Thanks for your post. Here are my settings for the ce4 interface which are set in an init script. How do I enable all auto-neg options? I would usually just set the ndd -set /dev/ce adv_1000fdx_cap 1 to 0 and the autoneg to 1?


ndd -set /dev/ce instance 4
ndd -set /dev/ce adv_1000fdx_cap 1
ndd -set /dev/ce adv_1000hdx_cap 0
ndd -set /dev/ce adv_100fdx_cap 0
ndd -set /dev/ce adv_100hdx_cap 0
ndd -set /dev/ce adv_10fdx_cap 0
ndd -set /dev/ce adv_10hdx_cap 0
ndd -set /dev/ce adv_autoneg_cap 0

Thanks,

Sparcman

Code:

ndd -set /dev/ce adv_autoneg_cap 1

Enables auto neg.