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Hamish Marson wrote: |
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> Sorry, I disagree. You are supposed to configure switches & hubs for |
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> static and NOT auto. Auto detect is a broken protocol. If you can even |
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> be that charitable. AFAIK it's not even a proper standard. |
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> If you don't configure statically you get mismatches and then |
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> collisions... |
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You can't really configure full duplex on a hub... well if you could it |
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would be a switch. That brings us to the next point that many switchs |
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don't have interfaces to set the switch side to full duplex so you're |
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stuck with auto-negotiation. And the only thing more broken than |
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auto-neg is setting one side and not the other. And finally many network |
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drivers don't support setting full duplex when the driver is loaded so |
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you're stuck tryiing to run something in rc.local... assuming ethtool or |
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mii-tool supports the card and many cards aren't supported. |
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In summary, doing away with auto-neg does tend to solve the problem, |
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but there are significant barriers to doing this in many enviroments. |
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kashani |
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