[ixp1200] GigaMAC <--> switch problems...

[Brandewie, Dirk J]

Hi Austen,

I will try to find someone that might have some advice on this.

--Dirk

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Austen McDonald [mailto:austen at cc.gatech.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 12:52 PM
> To: ixp1200 at CS.Princeton.EDU
> Subject: [ixp1200] GigaMAC <--> switch problems...
> 
> 
> 
> 	Has anyone connected their GigaMACs to gigabit switches? We have
> one old 3com switch w/ one gigabit connection and it seems to 
> work fine w/
> autoconfiguation enabled. However, when I try it w/ our 
> Alteon ACEswitch
> 180 it wont give me a link light. Between the 3com and the 
> Alteon requires
> that auotconfiguration be turned off---I try to mimic these settings
> between the IXP and the Alteon but the link just wont work. 
> Any tricks?
> 	Im writing 0x0140 to the GMII_CTL register to disable the
> autoconf.
> 
> Austen McDonald
> austen at cc.gatech.edu
> 
> God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. 
> He integrates empirically.
>   -- Albert Einstein
> 
>