> I've never paid much attention to what ifconfig says, or what > managed switches say, as far as speed or duplex negotiation go. > Most vendors do not play well together. I'll repeat that because > it needs repeating: most vendors do not play well together. > Example: anyone familiar with Cisco Catalysts knows of the > long-standing problem with auto-neg which ultimately requires > both ends of the connection be set to 100/full.
I disagree. Autonegotiation used to be a problem, and we used to force all links to 100/full. But that was 3-4 years ago. These days, the situation is much improved - and in most cases autonegotiation "just works". That includes *lots* of Cisco Catalyst switches. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"