Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 11:16:50 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Mitch Collinsworth <mkc@Graphics.Cornell.EDU> Cc: Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com>, "'Mike Squires'" <mikes@sir-alan.chem.indiana.edu>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Setting Intel Pro100B to half duplex Message-ID: <199910121816.LAA17269@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 12 Oct 1999 13:42:40 EDT." <199910121742.AA193980161@broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu>
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>Also I'm curious about your statement about autonegotiate being >notorious. I've heard this stated frequently but never with any data >to back it up. After the above reply from Mr. Greenman I read up on >autonegotiation in 3 different books on high-speed networking and have >come to the _tentative_ conclusion that this rumor is based on old >hardware. > >It seems that the 100 Mbps ethernet spec pre-dates the NWAY >autonegotation spec and in fact there was a different method used for >autonegotiation in the earliest days of 100 Mbps ethernet. My guess is >that this rumor was started during those early days and is still being >dutifully passed on by those who experienced problems with the early >non-NWAY equipment (and those who've heard the war stories from them). > >Can you (or anyone) state with any degree of certainty that any modern >equipment built with NWAY autonegotiation exhibits any problems with >autonegotiation? Most Cisco hardware gets it wrong, for whatever reason...at least when it is talking with a Pro/100. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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