Juniper e3k with ports limitied to 100Mbit and re NICs on MSI MoBo: problems with duplex negotiation (Hetzner host provider discard FreeBSD support due this bug)

[Bjoern A. Zeeb]

On Tue, 11 Jan 2011, Artyom Viklenko wrote:

> 11.01.2011 21:48, Bjoern A. Zeeb :
>> On Tue, 11 Jan 2011, Artyom Viklenko wrote:
>> 
>>> 11.01.2011 21:29, Lev Serebryakov ?????:
>>>> 
>>>> root at rescue ~ # mii-tool -v eth0
>>>> eth0: 100 Mbit, full duplex, link ok
>>>> product info: vendor 00:07:32, model 17 rev 2
>>>> basic mode: 100 Mbit, full duplex
>>>> basic status: link ok
>>>> capabilities: 1000baseT-HD 1000baseT-FD 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD 
>>>> 10baseT-FD 10baseT-HD
>>>> advertising: 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD 10baseT-FD 10baseT-HD flow-control
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> link partner: 100baseTx-HD
>>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>> 
>>> Looks very strange for me... 'HD' means half-duplex?
>>> 
>>> May be linux driver defaults to full-duplex if autoneg fails?..
>> 
>> That's probably just because it cannot tell what the peer really uses
>> (autoneg disabled) and prints the sane fall-back but I don't know the code.
>> 
>
> Is it possible to see status from corresponding port on Juniper switch?
> Config part for this port on the switch would be also very interesting.

No but I think we are not getting anywhere;  I contacted them this
afternoon and will see if they'll get back to me.

/bz

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