[Info-vax] LAVC, AlphaStation255 & Cisco Switch

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In article <i36dt4$9s8$1 at news.belwue.de>, gartmann at nonsense.immunbio.mpg.de (Christoph Gartmann) writes:
>Hello,
>
>we replaced an old switch with one from Cisco (C3560E). But an AlphaStation 255
>has problems booting (OpenVMS 7.3-2) via this switch. It boots, starts
>STARTUP.COM, mounts its local device for page- and swap-file, starts two
>processes and then tells something about the network setting (Fast Ethernet,
>Full Duplex) and crashes claiming that there were too many erros on device
>PEA0. On the switch side it is a fixed setting (speed 100, duplex full, no mdix
>auto). There is no problem neither with a 3COM-Switch nor with one from HP.
>Thus, I assume the setting on the VMS side is all-right. But what do I need
>to configure on the Cisco end? What is happending here?

What do you have the SRM console setup for  EWA*_MODE set to?

If it's AUTO, try with it set to FastFD.  That should, hopefully, stop the
attempt to do auto-negotiation and reconfigure.

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