Netbooting 4.8

Bernd Walter ticso at cicely12.cicely.de
Thu Aug 28 15:11:34 PDT 2003


On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 12:02:41AM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 08:28:59PM +0200, Bernd Walter wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 02:18:42PM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> > > 
> > > Wilko Bulte writes:
> > >  > 
> > >  > Yup. But we have a de(4) around for those older chips.
> > > 
> > > Which doesn't autoneg well.. :(
> > 
> > IIRC 21x4[01] doesn't support autoneg.
> 
> I think that depends on the actual 21x4 (sub) revision as well ;)

Possible.

> > All you can do is try until you have a link.
> > The evil point with de(4) is that you can set the settings to 100/full
> > and still get a working 10Mbit connection...
> 
> Makes you wonder..

I had a FreeBSD router with 9 21140 channels and a number of hosts
connected directly using 21140 based cards too (Cogent EM110/EM440
cards).
After booting it could happen that links were established with 10MBit
also the interfaces were set to fixed rates.
No - it doesn't wonder me anymore - I've learned to live with that.
Also todays NIC prices helps to not waste time with such troubles
anymore.

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