> I surely tried other cables. But its surely not the cable because:
> 1) We tried other cables
> 2) After a reboot it works, or after a mii-tool -R
> 3) We have this issue on like +100 servers :(
>
> The servers are connected on a Dell PowerConnect 6248 switch.
>
> Sincerely
>
> Michael Chan schreef:
> > On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 14:51 -0700, Jean-Louis Dupond wrote:
> >> Hello!
> >>
> >> Here is a mii-tool -vvv on a box that doesn't advertise gbit speeds! It
> >> just doesn't advertise gbit @ random, sometimes it does, sometimes not!
> >> Without any logic in it!
> >>
> >> # mii-tool -vvv
> >> Using SIOCGMIIPHY=0x8947
> >> eth0: link ok
> >> registers for MII PHY 1:
> >> 1000 794d 0143 bed0 05e1 0000 0064 2001
> >> 0000 0300 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 3000
> >
> > Register 1 shows that autoneg did not complete (bit 5 is not set).
> > The tg3 device has advertised 10/100/1000 in register 4 and register 9,
> > but registers 5 and 0xa (link partner's advertisement registers are 0).
> >
> > When it works, these registers should look very different.
> >
> > Have you tried other cables? What is the link partner?
> >
> >> 0000 0101 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> >> 7477 0104 0000 ffff 2801 0000 8000 0000
> >> product info: vendor 00:50:ef, model 45 rev 0
> >> basic mode: autonegotiation enabled
> >> basic status: link ok
> >> capabilities: 1000baseT-HD 1000baseT-FD 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD
> >> 10baseT-FD 10baseT-HD
> >> advertising: 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD 10baseT-FD 10baseT-HD flow-
> >> control
> >>
> >> # dmesg | grep tg3
> >> [ 3.331702] tg3.c:v3.92.1 (June 9, 2008)
> >> [ 18.238654] tg3: eth0: Link is up at 10 Mbps, half duplex.
> >> [ 18.238654] tg3: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
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