From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Dec 26 9:26:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.uniserve.com (mail2.uniserve.com [204.244.156.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D61BE37B405; Wed, 26 Dec 2001 09:26:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail2.uniserve.com ([204.244.156.10]) by mail2.uniserve.com with esmtp (Exim 3.13 #1) id 16JHp6-000OE0-00; Wed, 26 Dec 2001 09:26:36 -0800 Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 09:26:36 -0800 (PST) From: Tom X-Sender: tom@athena.uniserve.ca To: Keith J Cc: Peter Ong , Robert Watson , Nevermind , Murray Stokely , stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG, bmah@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.5 PRERELEASE - Call for testing In-Reply-To: <001301c18de9$c7ed5240$3602a8c0@columbus.rr.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Keith J wrote: > Well gee Tom.... if one end doesn't respond to negotiation... are you saying > the smart end will force a speed or duplex that can't possibly work? Lets > say I have an old 10Mbs ONLY card... are you declaring that it gets toasted > by auto-negotiate every single time? ... If the 10Mbps card is set to manual full-duplex, and the switch is set to auto-negotiate, the switch will set itself to half, creating a duplex mismatch problem (and about 1 to 7% packet loss). Both ends must be set to auto-negotiate, or both ends must be set to manual. That is the way it works. Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message