Known Incompatibilities With Noncompliant Network Equipment; To Set Autonegotiation To Off For A Sunswitch Or An Alteon Ace 110 Switch - Sun Microsystems GigabitEthernet FC-AL/P Combination Adapter Installation Manual

Known Incompatibilities With Noncompliant
Network Equipment
You may experience interoperability issues when using the adapter with the
SunSwitch switch, the Alteon ACE 110 switch, or other pre- or non-IEEE 802.3z
standard compliant network equipment. If you experience difficulties with
noncompliant equipment, set the adapter and switch autonegotiation properties to
off and try to manually configure the interface.
To Set Autonegotiation to off for a SunSwitch or an
Alteon ACE 110 Switch
You can set autonegotiation to off for SunSwith and Alteon ACE 110 switches using
those switches' configuration program (cgf). Refer to your switch documentation
for instructions on how to access and use the cgf program.
The following procedure describes how to turn autonegotiation off for one
SunSwitch port.
1. Establish a connection to the switch using either a serial connection or a telnet
connection.
Refer to the SunSwitch 1.1 Installation and Configuration Guide (805-3743-10) for more
information. After connecting to the switch, you will see the Main menu prompt
(Main#).
2. At the Main# prompt, type cfg to display the Configuration menu and prompt
(Configuration#).
>> Main# cfg
[Configuration Menu]
sys
port
ip
vlan
stp
snmp
setup -
dump
>> Configuration#
- System-wide parameter menu
- Port configuration menu
- IP addressing menu
- VLAN configuration menu
- Spanning Tree menu
- SNMP menu
Step by step configuration set up
- Dump current configuration to script file
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