Re: slow ethernet

[Rembrandt <rembrandt@jpberlin.de>]

On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 12:34:15 +0100
lists-openbsd@bsws.de (Henning Brauer) wrote:

> * Steven S. <ssurdock@engineered-net.com> [2004-02-16 09:18]:
> > In my opinion if you've never experienced problems with auto negotiation
> > your either very lucky or not looking for it.
> 
> no, you are probably doing something else very wrong and autoneg 
> failing is an effect, not a cause.
> 
> yet, the "autoneg is problematic" myth keeps spreading, yet it is utter 
> bullshit.
> i don't have a single box with autoneg problems here, and that is all 
> kind of architectures with a _lot_ of different NICs to several 
> different cisco switches.

Autoneg isn't an option it's a must for a NIC.

Where is the problem to write 2 shellscripts?!
You told us you've an autoneg-problem?
I think the rom on your NIC is damaged so wrote 2 shellscripts.
One to set up 100MBit and one for 10MBit.... is it so difficoult?

'ifconfig' is your friend...

Best regards...

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