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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE: Problems connectivity GE on Foundry BigIron to Cisco 2950T
You are using a crossover cable right? If that's all set, you do need to have neg-off on the Foundry and "no nego auto" on the Cisco. I haven't used the rj-45 gbics in the Foundry equipment before, not sure if that could be an issue. I would go with the hard set 1000-full on both sides. David From: Sam Stickland > > Hi, > > I'm having a right mare trying to get a Foundry BigIron to > connect up to a cisco 2950T, via Gigabit copper. > > The Foundry BigIron is using a cisco RJ45/copper GBIC that > was pulled from a live cisco 6500, where it was working > fine. The cisco 2950T has two fixed 10/100/1000 RJ45 ports. > > The cables between the equipment have been tested and are fine. > > The Foundry has three different types of the gigabit negiation modes: > > auto-gig Autonegotiation > neg-full-auto Autonegotiation first, if failed try > non-autonegotiation > neg-off Non-autonegotiation > > I've tried all three, complete with all the other > possibilities with the cisco 2950T (which has fixed full > duplex operation, but can be set to 'speed auto' or > 'speed 1000'). > > None of these combinations bring up the link. The cisco 2950 > never gets a link light. The Foundry gets a link light > regardless when it's mode is set to 'gig-default neg-off'. > > I'm at a bit of a loss to explain this. Does anyone know of any > configuration issues that can explain this, or is it time to start > swapping out hardware components? > > Sam > >
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