Believe me, Chuck, I've harped on our LAN people about this forever and they finally have made great progress in that area. Today's problems arise from some P133s with 10baseT ISA cards in them. With previous versions of the 2950 IOS we'd hardset the ports to 10/half and then reboot the PC about five times (yes, I said five times!) and from that point on they'd have no problems. I have no explanation.
As of the latest version of software, the connections to these NICs seem to be on even shakier ground but we seem to be getting them under control. The real solution is to upgrade the NICs in all of those machines but that's easier said than done consider the locations of these machines relative to ours. :-) John >>> Chuck Whose Road is Ever Shorter 7/23/03 1:35:37 PM >>> lazy boy. upgrade your NIC drivers. :-> NIC problems with Cisco switches have been issues for several years that I can think of. ;-> ""John Neiberger"" wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > All those who consider any version of this platform beware. As far as I can > tell there are no reliable software versions for this switch that do not > suffer from connectivity bugs. We thought 12.1(13)EA1b solved our problems > so we started rolling out this version. Upon reloading we have a number of > users complaining and we're not able to resolve the connectivity issue. > > Granted, this particular problem is between the 2950 and an old NIC but I'm > sure we're not the only company with a few older NICs in the network. If > you're considering replacing existing switches with the 2950 prepare > yourself for deluge of conenctivity problems. > > You have been warned! > > [Side note to Cisco: How hard is it to build an access switch that works?? > We're on 12.1(13)EA1b and we still have BASIC connectivity bugs??? This is > ridiculous. Bugs in the more obscure portions of the code are to be > expected, but shouldn't the connectivity bugs be given a little higher > priority? When we buy a new switch it would be nice if *all* of our end > users could actually connect to the network. Maybe we'll go back to using > Nortel switches. ] Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=72843&t=72821 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
