SUMMARY: Throughput Increase

Hello All,

Thanks to Casper, Chris and Brain.

The response on autonegotiation setting was mixed.

Well, I decided to do some load testing with the autonegotiation
enabled/disabled on a 100Mbps fdx environment.


Thank You.

==== Original Post =====
On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 10:49:49AM +0530, Siebe_Jamnagar@ril.com wrote:
> Hello
>
> Does this mean that, the advertised values for autonegotiation and 10mbs
(
> fdx and hdx ) should not be set,  as long as the link partner is capable
of
> 100Mbps ?
>
> scenario ( Solaris 2.5.1, Solaris 2.6, E250, Ultra 30 )
>
> I am also facing the througput issues.
>
>
> I will summarise.
>
> Thank you..
>
>
> From: "Yar Baily" <msmabc@hotmail.com>
> To: "Sun Managers" <sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org>
> Subject: SUMMARY: Throughput Increase
> Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 11:12:30 -0600
>
> Many thanks to all of you for kind responses.
>
> Dave Foster,  Frank Smith,  Robert Escue,  Brian Sherwood,  Josh
Turgasen,
> Benjamin Feen, Joe Fletcher
>
> It was an issue with the NIC autonegotiation being enabled. I checked it
> with the following commands:
>
> ndd -get /dev/hme link_speed
> ndd -get /dev/hme link_mode
> ndd -get /dev/hme adv_autneg_cap
>
> Then  I  hardcoded entries in the /etc/system file for Link Speed, Link
> Mode
> and AutoNegotiate as following :
>
> set hme:hme_adv_autoneg_cap=0
> set hme:hme_adv_100T4_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
>
>
> Now I am getting the well desired 300 MB / Minute speed !!
>
> Best regards
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