[Info-vax] Sudden problems with slow sftp transfers and slow disk accesses

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Scott Dorsey wrote 2014-02-18 19:00:
>   <gwilliams at cfa.harvard.edu> wrote:
>>
>> The switch is an auto-sensing Netgear 16-port FS116.  I don't see how
>> I can check what the switch is set to.
>>
>
> There's your problem right there.  Ditch the Netgear toy and get a
> proper switch.
>

First decide if you want/need to use auto-negotiation or not!

If no, get another switch (where you can disable it)
If yes, switch it on in the Alpha.

If the latter works, you could just as well keep the
switches (until something else breakes), but you do not
have to buy new equipment to solve *this* problem.

I'd be very interested in knowing what kind of enviroment this
is. I've a hard time seeing a larger professional envoronment
where the network group decided that the FS116 was "good enough".



> There _are_ unmanaged switches which will negotiate properly with alphas,
> including some Allied Telesis ones.

The FS116 might negotiate just fine, we don't know until
he has tried.

Jan-Erik.


> But you're really much better off with
> a managed switch if possible.
> --scott
>
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