Re: Power 5 Network cards..

Curious.

Did they install an old Cisco 10/100 only switch??? If you have a 5633 then there is no option for a 10/100 card so it must be a 1Gb Card. Thus the changes don't make much sense to me. I have yet to run into a GbE switch that will not auto-negotiate with IBM's Power System cards (which are by the way mostly Intel cards)

In ASMI I'm not aware of a way to set the Duplex or Speed for the Service Processor ports.

I would absolutely NOT blame this on the Power System! This is a failure of the network switch. Any GbE switch today that cannot handle auto for speed and duplex is immediately suspect in my book.

- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

P.S. Also an 8203-E4A is a Power6. Not that this matters for your problem :-)

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On 7/13/2016 10:33 AM, Kevin wrote:

Hi,

I'm supporting a 8203 E4A 5633 Power5 at 7.1 and we recently had an
issue where the LAN console just stopped connecting to the IBMi..

We had no idea why this was so we checked all the cables etc..then
finally called in an engineer as we thought the card had failed...

It turns out that the new switch the network people installed didn't
like the LAN Card settings with DUPLEX set to AUTO where it had before,
and speed set to AUTO where it had worked before.

Setting this to FULL and 100 respectively corrected the connection issue.

My question...our ASMI console has also stopped working in a similar
manner - where can I change those card settings?

Thanks in advance..

Regards

Kevin

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