From owner-freebsd-stable  Wed Dec 26 16:32:27 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 141C137B419
	for <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>; Wed, 26 Dec 2001 16:32:23 -0800 (PST)
Received: from mail2.uniserve.com ([204.244.156.10])
	by mail2.uniserve.com with esmtp (Exim 3.13 #1)
	id 16JOT3-000D5l-00; Wed, 26 Dec 2001 16:32:17 -0800
Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 16:32:17 -0800 (PST)
From: Tom <tom@uniserve.com>
X-Sender: tom@athena.uniserve.ca
To: Allen Landsidel <all@biosys.net>
Cc: "Peter/Los Angeles, CA" <peter@haloflightleader.net>,
	Sam Drinkard <sam@wa4phy.net>, sthaug@nethelp.no,
	freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: 4.5 PRERELEASE - Call for testing
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20011226181401.00ae1ec8@rfnj.org>
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10112261622210.78328-100000@athena.uniserve.ca>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
List-ID: <freebsd-stable.FreeBSD.ORG>
List-Archive: <http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/> (Web Archive)
List-Help: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=help> (List Instructions)
List-Subscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=subscribe%20freebsd-stable>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=unsubscribe%20freebsd-stable>
X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG


On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Allen Landsidel wrote:

> >What I'm getting at is that just because one end is not set to
> >auto-negotiate/auto-sense that there will be no communication at all.  Say,
> >that one end is set manually, and the other end is automatic.  The automatic
> >end will set itself to the parameters of the one that is manually set.  This
> >is how my network works.  Thus, I don't believe that both ends, need to be
> >set the same way in order to work in this scenario.
> 
> For auto-negotiation you are absolutely correct.  Setting it manually on 
> just one end is the right way to do it, and often times, the only way to do it.

  Turning off auto-negotiation on one end, results in disabling
auto-negotiation entirely.  See the standard.  If the your NIC does
perform the capabilities negotiation with your switch, auto-negotiation is
assumed to be not supported and the switch will default to half-duplex.
The speed isn't an issue, as it easy to auto-detect speed.


Tom


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message