Andrew Tyson wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Recently (in the last week or so) an unusual network issue has affected an
> E450 at my work.

Andrew, the first thing to check is to make sure the autonegotiation settings
agree on both ends of the wire. Make sure that both the E450 and Cisco
are set to autonegotiate 10/100 and half/full-duplex, OR hardwire both
ends to the same settings. I prefer the former, myself (auto).

Also, check to see if there are patches in Solaris 7 for the hme driver.
The recommended cluster may not include them.

Good luck!

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> Andrew, the first thing to check is to make sure the autonegotiation
settings
> agree on both ends of the wire. Make sure that both the E450 and Cisco
> are set to autonegotiate 10/100 and half/full-duplex, OR hardwire both
> ends to the same settings. I prefer the former, myself (auto).
>
> Also, check to see if there are patches in Solaris 7 for the hme driver.
> The recommended cluster may not include them.

Griff,

We actually went through all this ..played with /dev/hme settings, installed
patches ... to no avail.

In the end a kind soul hit the nail on the head. The problem turned out
being a
reverse DNS issue with DHCP allocated machines on our LAN. Updating
/etc/resolv.conf and including the local DNS host fixed the problem. The
wierd
thing was that the file had not been changed for months, and suddenly the
problem
appeared. We think that it may be related to some change with the DNS from
our
ISP.

Thanks and regards,
Andrew