[Sunhelp] Slow TFTP with NCD 19R xterminal?

[Bill Bradford]

On Sun, Nov 14, 1999 at 10:29:26PM -0800, James Lockwood wrote:
> If this is the same problem I think it is, it is shared with several other
> 10/100 switches (Netgear FS108 for sure).  Another piece of affected
> hardware is the Sparc 4/5/10/20, the internal 10baseT transciever doesn't
> link up in the PROM (making netbooting impossible) but works fine once the
> OS loads.  The solution is to either use an hme card or an AUI breakout
> cable with a transciever that is set to disable link detection.
> Try hooking a port of the switch to the hub uplink port, and hook another
> port of the hub to your xterminal.  If this fixes it then your problem is
> link detection that is incompatible with many 10/100 autosensing switches.

My switch is a 10bt only, tho....

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