Sorry but I worked for a very successful company in the UK that didn't use auto neg's on Cisco switches and routers so I wouldn't call it evil AT all, please explain why manual is evil.
C -----Original Message----- From: owner-m...@openbsd.org [mailto:owner-m...@openbsd.org] On Behalf Of Henning Brauer Sent: 16 March 2009 13:29 To: OpenBSD Subject: Re: HP Proliant DL385 with Squid at a Gigabit-switch - bad network performance * Laurent CARON <lca...@unix-scripts.info> [2009-02-28 21:33]: > Steve Shockley wrote: >> On 2/27/2009 8:43 AM, Laurent CARON wrote: >>> - Forcing speed on switch >>> - Forcing speed on nic >> >> Why? This practice made sense when 10baseT gear from different vendors >> wasn't compatible, but not for the last 15-20 years. > > This practice still makes sense, at least with broadcom cards. no, it is pure bullshit and the source of many many many errors. just because cisco failed miserably in implementing autoneg for years. even they managed now. so stop spreading this bullshit. autoneg is good. manual is evil. that simple. > I always do force the speed on servers. this is extremely stupid. -- Henning Brauer, h...@bsws.de, henn...@openbsd.org BS Web Services, http://bsws.de Full-Service ISP - Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS Services Dedicated Servers, Rootservers, Application Hosting - Hamburg & Amsterdam
