In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > I'm having some trouble, actually with a Cisco 6509 switch, but getting > it to talk to 20 VALinux machines. My story:
Some folks at work saw similar weirdness with the negotiation on some HP switch products, their solution was to configure the switch to not do the auto discovery protocol, but instead have each port on the switch hard configured, as 100/full for the machines that could take it, and less for the ones that can't. Ugly, but functional. I've never personally seen the problem, and don't know the Cisco switch products, so your mileage may vary. Bdale