[Sunhelp] hme NIC lying?

[Bob Beecher]

Jim nailed it. We've got hme cards installed in over 20 separate Sun servers 
(Sparc4's thru E3500's) that are connected to just about every type of 100MB 
switch or hub (Cisco 5505, Cisco 2900, Nortel Accelar 1200, 3Com LinkSwitch, 
old Synoptics, etc). Every one of the servers had a problem sensing the duplex 
correctly. We had to resort to forcing the network equipment into full-duplex 
and adding the code (below) into /etc/system on each of the servers.

Jim Howell wrote:
> 
> Hi,
>         It isn't lying, Suns will usually auto-sense the speed correctly but do not seem to auto-sense the duplex
> setting right, to just confuse you it will sometimes appear to work but if loaded will behave badly.  To deal with
> this I put the following into /etc/system:
> set hme:hme_adv_autoneg_cap=0
> set hme:hme_adv_100fdx_cap=1
> set hme:hme_adv_100hdx_cap=0
> set hme:hme_adv_10fdx_cap=0
> set hme:hme_adv_10hdx_cap=0
> 
> After putting that into /etc/system you will need to reboot to make them take affect.  These can all be set via ndd
> but those settings would be reset the next you reboot.
> Jim
>