[Info-vax] hub better than switch?!

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <jjad4o$gq4$1 at dont-email.me>, Albrecht Schlosser
<vms-news at go4more.de> writes: 

> This looks all reasonable, and Auto-negotiation is enabled. The
> only significant difference is that in your output I can't see
> "Flow control". Looking at an Alpha (OpenVMS V7.3-2) I can't see
> it either, so this might be a problem if it is not enabled by
> default (or if it doesn't work or is not enabled at the switch).
> 
> Looking back at your original post: you wrote that you get the
> errors on the machine with the 100Mb/s interface (the others
> have 10). So this looks like maybe a flow control/data overrun
> problem could be the cause. I don't have any more ideas. If
> you could reset the (LANCP) counters and watch the error
> counters, then we might see a relation...

Interestingly, although I didn't change anything, the error count 
stopped increasing a couple of days ago.  Maybe comp.os.vms is so 
powerful that problems can be solved by just mentioning them here.  :-)