17 Aug
2014
17 Aug
'14
5:27 p.m.
I've been playing with a couple VaxStations and a qbus PDP11 recently
and have been having trouble with connecting 10Mb ethernet to 100Mb
and 1Gb switches. I have several 10base-T transceivers that I use
since all my 10base2 hardware is in storage.
Today for example, I connected a DELQA in the PDP11 to a 10-100-1000
switch and it did not work. I got out a 10-100 hub and put it between
the PDP11 and the switch and it worked fine.
Another example, my VS4000/60 netboots fine, but NetBSD will not
detect the network interface unless it is connected to the "right"
switch.
All the switches and hubs I am using are from a collection of
unmanaged consumer grade stuff (TRENDnet, ASUS, Linksys, etc.) that I
have accumulated.
Curious if anybody else has similar trouble when mixing old with new
and slow with fast.
-chuck