From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Sam Ducksworth <sam@ducksworth.com>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Alpha success (w/ clock.c bugfix and ether2114x.c update)
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Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 09:56:27 -0500
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i have seen things like this happen before and it is usually a problem with
autonegotiation of the port speed. did you try to turn off the autoneg and
force the port in question to the speed desired speed?

> had been done without taking the systems down so fortunately the
> fileserver was still working (no idea how, but miracles sometimes happen).
> I had to replace the ether card in the fileserver as, sure enough, after
> a reboot it too couldn't talk to the Procurve.
>

--sam