Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2006 22:24:43 +0100 (CET) From: sthaug@nethelp.no To: freebsd@jdc.parodius.com Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, valqk@lozenetz.org, tom@samplonius.org Subject: Re: netstat -ni - A lot of collisions... Message-ID: <20061106.222443.74711080.sthaug@nethelp.no> In-Reply-To: <20061106114537.GA99879@icarus.home.lan> References: <454BC211.3090104@lozenetz.org> <454F010D.4090807@lozenetz.org> <20061106114537.GA99879@icarus.home.lan>
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> 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, sthaug@nethelp.no
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