I found a reference " Some Cisco switches are even permanently configured this way -- they can receive pause frames but never emit them."

http://virtualthreads.blogspot.com/2006/02/beware-ethernet-flow-control.html

On 09/13/2012 11:17 AM, Alex Chekholko wrote:
 3. What of hardware flow control? Generally enable it, or are there
    precautions/corner cases where it's not a sensible thing to do?

I've dinked with that setting but was not able to notice a measurable
difference.  There are also implementation differences in how different
devices handle pause frames, e.g. IIRC some Cisco switches ignore them,
no matter the setting.

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