Re: slow ethernet

["Steven S." <ssurdock@engineered-net.com>]

I'm glad you've not experienced similar issues.  I'm not too sure what I
could be doing wrong when I plug two devices together, configured to
'auto-negotiate', and one comes up half while the other comes up full.
Forcing both side to full duplex works like a charm.  I've seen this time
and time again on high-end hardware.  Obviously, YMMV:-}

-Steve S.


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.