Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 09:41:56 -0800 (PST) From: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> To: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> Cc: sthaug@nethelp.no, kjohnso8@columbus.rr.com, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.5 PRERELEASE - Call for testing Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10112260936230.57826-100000@athena.uniserve.ca> In-Reply-To: <20011226130814.A13115@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Wilko Bulte wrote: ... > > Thus the advice to either use auto-negotiate everywhere, or use manual > > everywhere. One end auto-negotiate and one end manual is a recipe for > > disaster. > > So, that implies that in these cases non-managable switches are doomed > as you cannot 'hard-set' them to some value. Not necessarily. I have an unmanaged Netgear FS308 switch (typical cheap etherswitch), but it supports autonegotiate. When I plug in a FreeBSD box with a fxp card, the lights on the front of the switch show that it has properly negotiated 100/full. The fact is, most ethernet hardware that says it support auto-negotiate, actually does, and it actually works. Auto-negotiation has gotten a reputation for being unreliable because users end up disabling auto on one end and still expect it to work. Auto-negotiation != auto-detection. > -- > | / o / /_ _ email: wilko@FreeBSD.org > |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, The Netherlands > Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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