[X Servers] Xserve only 100BaseTX

Dave Lee d.r.lee at mmu.ac.uk
Thu Mar 27 08:18:40 PST 2003


You might need to set the speed using ifconfig as some network gear 
doesn't understand the auto negotiating protocols used by apple. I'm 
not sure on the syntax so you'll need to man ifconfig to find out..
Dave

>Thanks for the quick reply
>
>Yeah I should have mentioned that I have a Giganet switch and that my Win2k
>server and Gigabit G4s are operating at 1000BaseTX (theoretically)
>
>My concern is that the NIC cards for the Xserve show up as 100Mb as the link
>speed in Network Utility while the Gigabit G4s show up as 1 Gb.
>
>
>On 3/27/03 9:24 AM, "Andreas Thorsrud" <andreas at infografikk.no> wrote:
>
>>  First of all you have to connect through a gigabit network (with
>>  correct cabling, gigabit-switches etc.)
>>  If you are connecting directly to another Mac with gigabit, make sure
>>  it is a normal cat 5-cable, not crossover.
>>  No other settings on the xServe that i know of..
>>
>>  /andreas
>>  On torsdag, mar 27, 2003, at 15:16 Europe/Oslo, Joey Parshley wrote:
>>
>>>  For some reason both Ethernet ports are running at 100BaseTX. I
>>>  thought this
>>>  was supposed to be Dual Gigabit? I have a Dual Gig Xserve running OS X
>>>  10.24
>>>  Server. Are there any settings I can check?
>>>
>>>  TIA
>>>  --
>
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