From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Dec 26 5: 0:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from verdi.nethelp.no (verdi.nethelp.no [158.36.41.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 54BBB37B417 for ; Wed, 26 Dec 2001 05:00:30 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 99529 invoked by uid 1001); 26 Dec 2001 13:00:27 +0000 (GMT) To: wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.5 PRERELEASE - Call for testing From: sthaug@nethelp.no In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 26 Dec 2001 13:08:14 +0100" References: <20011226130814.A13115@freebie.xs4all.nl> X-Mailer: Mew version 1.05+ on Emacs 19.34.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 14:00:27 +0100 Message-ID: <99527.1009371627@verdi.nethelp.no> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Thus the advice to either use auto-negotiate everywhere, or use manual > > everywhere. One end auto-negotiate and one end manual is a recipe for > > disaster. > > So, that implies that in these cases non-managable switches are doomed > as you cannot 'hard-set' them to some value. If auto-negotiate fails on non-managable switches, you can usually get it to work after the fact by manually configuring the box at the other end. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message