Re: Forcing Duplex settings

Hi

We have ssen similar problems with some Intel nics, mostly motherboard
integrated on PIII:s. The problem is that at least CISCO switches and these
intel nics wan't agree om anything else than 10Mbit/half duplex. Forcing
them to 100/Full in both ends will give a stable 100/Full connection

The problem is that there is no common property to set to adjust speed and
duplex. Theese settings are implemeted by each driver vendor as they see
fit. There is a wmi value to read out the connection speed but that is read
only. Intel has wmi extension for their cards wich make them adjustable by
WMI.

I have posted a request via our tam to the develteam to change the
drivermodel so that nicspeed and duplex would become a standard interface
for all nics.

In the meanwhile the best soulution to this (at least as I know) is to edit
the registry or make a program for it. Be aware that you will have to change
diffrent keys/values depnding on the nic
"Kenneth Fossen" <KennethFossen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:BD8D2437-34A3-44AC-9D8B-EF866533790D@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> I'm not sure if we have tested it in an testlab enviroment.
> The system is already running in production, and there is alot of
resources
> we need to get to do an testlab.
>
> I'll take your tip and ask the WMI list, or atleast read the FAQ :)
>
> Thx for the help.
>
> Kenneth
> "Gerry Hickman" wrote:
>
> > Hi Kenneth,
> >
> > The problems I had, were that I thought I was being clever matching the
> > NIC to the switch (and it even recommends this in a manual I have), but
> > when I tested it, everything to do with the network was messed up. I
> > then put it back to "Auto" and everything started working again. I've
> > never worked out the reason. I basically did it on each machine manually
> > back then.
> >
> > In terms of "how" to force the settings, I don't know. It may be a case
> > of hacking very specific registry keys for the NIC driver in question,
> > or there may be a way to use NDIS API calls, or the NIC maker may have a
> > developers guide or WMI provider.
> >
> > You may want to post about this on the WMI newsgroups if you don't get
> > an answer here - although I don't think it can be done with WMI, the
> > guys in that group know about this kind of thing.
> >
> > About your specific problem, did you try taking five clean built
> > machines off the network and creating a test network with just those
> > five? This is the first thing I'd do. You haven't exactly defined the
> > problem very well.
> >
> > Kenneth Fossen wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > > What kind of problems have you been experiencing when you set the
NIC's to
> > > 100Full insted of Auto?
> > >
> > > The problem I have has a long story, but the only thing that did make
the
> > > situation better was when we set the NIC to 100Full insted of Auto,
the same
> > > on the switchport.
> > >
> > > And then we have tried almost everything, well it feels like you have
tride
> > > everything. But we switched nic's, cabels, new hardware for the
computer and
> > > new switches.
> > >
> > > Kenneth
> > > "Gerry Hickman" wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >>Hi,
> > >>
> > >>Are you sure you know what you're doing, I've seen serious problems
when
> > >>it's forced, even though it was matched to the switch.
> > >>
> >
> >
> > --
> > Gerry Hickman (London UK)
> >


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