A6825A Giga Cards and Cisco Catalyst 4506 Switch.

[Victor Vitug]

Does the port on the Catalyst switch need to be configured for the A6825A Giga card?

I have a two cluster MC/Service Guard running Oracle OPS ( one instance per node) and one package kept shutting down because of -smon- failures as per the node log.

At the same time, the DBA said the 9i rev2 database was reporting a "Split -Brain" problem.

All network interfaces were up and could be pinged, but I suspect that there may have been latency issues via the giga ports that caused the whole problem.

We worked around this problem by reconfiguring the old 10/100 cards and moving the jacks back to the old 10/100 ports. The database is running smoothly again, but I would like tobe able to use the giga cards.

Has anybody have had any similar experience and has been able to resolve it?

I would appreciate any help on this.

I was not sure where I should post this message - (database, networking, Service Guard) but I decided on networking since I suspect it involves the Giga Nics and the switch.

Thank you

[Steven E. Protter]

For Gigabit cards:

Network switch MUST be autonegotiate.

Network card on the HP-UX box MUST be autonegotiate.

For the 10/100 cards it was the opposite, the switch needed to be explicit at 100 or 10 half or full duplex and the NIC config on HP-UX needed to be manual.

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