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Cisco Catalyst Express 520 speed issue

I had a network speed issue (mesured ~10 Mbits/s but should be 100 Mbits/s) using HP workstation with Windows XP SP3 / network card Intel Pro VE 100  connected to a second level Cisco Catalyst Express 520 Switches. Second Level Switches are connected to the central Switch Cisco Catalyst Express 520G at 1000 Mbits/s using uplink port (1000 Gbits/s).
Central server is connected directly to the central switch at 1000 Gbits/s.
The same test connecting a workstation (100 Mbits/s network card) to the second uplink port 1000 port, XP report a 100 Mbit/s link and the test report a correct bandwidth !
 
Setting port speed / duplex at network card and switch doesnt help
Trying with another network card (100 Mbits/s) on such workstation doesnt help.

Doing a test with another PC with a 1000 Gbits/s network card report a link at 100Mbit/s and the test report a correct bandwith ...

So at this point I dont know really if this is a switch or network card or OS issue ?

 
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ICF Firewall is turned off (at service level) because of Microsoft KB and Cisco CTC.
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I swapped out the cables, I swapped the switches without resutls.
I swapped also the Cisco Catalyst Express 520 switch with another switch (Linksys 10/100/1000)  and did not get the issue ... so there is really a negociation problem with this Cisco Catalyst Express 520 switches and Network cards / drivers (Intel Pro/100 VE or Broadband NetExtreme)
Setting HD/FD at both side also doesnt help.
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I get also the following answer from Cisco forum (not already tested):

Might be a HD/FD problem. Did you check the settings and statistics on the NIC (which is possible using the right drivers ...).

With 1Gbps links you should not have problems because the auto-negotation is part of the IEEE 802.3ab Standard and they removed the weaknesses of the original IEEE 802.3u.

With 100 Mbps links you might have cards following the first version of IEEE 802.1u and other ones which are using the second version of this standard. Therefore, havin the old version and the other site does not want to negotiate HD/FD problems are common.
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Working today with second level of Cisco TAC, we found  a workaround :

disabling mls qos at switch level  (config > no mls qos) solve the issue.

Because disabling  mls qos is not the goal, Cisco TAC and us are still working on this issue  ...
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