>On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 06:11:11PM +0300, virtanen wrote:
>> some of our computer engineers are telling me that my debian box
>> ('Potato') ethernet card should be fixed to a static speed (10,5). (Some
>> others are telling just the opposite...) I´m a network engineer for a living, and trust me, the only way to be sure there won´t be something wrong with autodetection is to avoid it. Setting speed and duplex on _both_ sides of an ethernet link is a Good Thing. Always. cheers, &rw -- -- NT is 'more secure' in so far as, if your average cracker screws -- around with it very much, an NT system tends to remove itself -- from the network rather promptly. -- ?, some CERT guy ----
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