[Info-vax] LAVC, AlphaStation255 & Cisco Switch

[Christoph Gartmann]

In article <00AA15A8.2F5DF473 at SendSpamHere.ORG>, VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG writes:
>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?

This setting is fixed to FAST-FD.

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

There is a second ethernet interface which is not in use but is still
recognized by OpenVMS and set to AUI during the boot process. Could this cause
problems?

Regards,
   Christoph Gartmann

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