From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 16:40:02 +1100
> On the quad G5 which has tg3, I get "Flow control is on for TX and on > for RX". Let me double check if I'm on the same switch... > > Heh ! It's not :-) > > If I switch the cables, then pause is enabled on the sungem box and > disabled (both Tx and Rx) on tg3, so at least the behaviour is > consistent and follow the switches. Let me check the switch models... > > The one with only asym. support is a big Cisco Catalyst 3350 (well.. big > but not that many ports :-) > > The one with "classic" pause support is a tiny Netgear GS116 > > It's possible that the cisco is just misconfigured though, I'll have to > ask Keith when he's around tomorrow to take a peek at the mgmnt > interface. Thanks for tracking this down :-) > > > > You should try to use flow control, even slower than 1000Mbit links. > > > > > > Sorry, not sure I parse ;-) You mean allowing pause on 10 and 100 as > > > well ? I sure can, it's easy to fix. > > > > That's correct. > > On it's way. I've applied that patch, thanks. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
