Known Incompatibilities; To Set Auto-Negotiation On Pre- Or Non-Compliant Equipment - Sun Microsystems GigabitEthernet/S 2.0 Installation And User Manual

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Known Incompatibilities

You may experience interoperability issues when using the Sun GigabitEthernet
adapter with SunSwitch
standard compliant network equipment. If you experience difficulties, set auto-
negotiation to off and try to manually configure through the command line.
To Set Auto-Negotiation on Pre- or Non-
Compliant Equipment
If your network equipment does not support auto-negotiation you can set auto-
negotiation to off on the ge device.
1. Select the following parameters: adv_1000fdx_cap, adv_1000hdx_cap,
adv_pauseTX and adv_pauseRX, and set those values according to the user's
manual that shipped with your switch. See page 18 for parameter values.
2. Set adv_1000autoneg_cap to 0.
2 Sun GigabitEthernet/S 2.0 Adapter Installation and User's Guide • September 1998
Requirements
Sun Ultra™ 2, Sun Enterprise™ 3x00, 4x00, 5x00, 6x00, or 10000
system.
Revision 3.x
Solaris 2.5.1 Hardware: 11/97 and 2.6, and Solaris 2.7 releases
Alteon ACE 110 Switch, or other pre- or non- IEEE 802.3z
™,