12.02.2006

gig card on hp-ux 11.00 doesn't keep speed/duplex setting

A 1000Base-T card in an 11.00 box was giving me grief.  the switch port was set to 100 full duplex, but the card kept staying at AUTO even though the speed/duplex was changed via sam and verified in the /etc/rc.config.d/hpgelanconf file; that, of course, cause collisions and a bunch of network errors because the card negotiated 100 half duplex.  There's a patch that fixes the issue:  28995   make sure the config file has the speed and duplex value in uppercase:

HP_GELAN_SPEED[0]=100FD