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On Sat, 10 Apr 1999, Vincent Poy wrote:

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> > 	I think everyrhing you need is typing 'man 4 de' and choosing the
> > 	correct value for ifconfig's `media' parameter. If your switch
> > 	operates using full duplex then corresonding value for `mediaopt'
> > 	must be set.
> 
> 	Thanks to you and everyone for their help.  All I needed to do was
> ifconfig de0 media 100BaseTX for the switch.  The funny thing I can't
> figure out is that our 100BaseT hub when the de0 card is plugged into it,
> the de0 will detect as 10Bt and it won't communicate until I manually do
> the media setting.  Is there a reason, it won't negotiate with the 100BT
> hub?

  Auto-negotiation is problematic, especially on the DEC based cards.

  It doesn't help when the etherswitch is doing auto-negotation too.  Our
Cabletron smart-switch-router always negotiates a half-duplex setting
regardless of what duplex setting the card is doing.

> Cheers,
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Tom



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