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Date:      Wed, 12 Jan 2011 00:31:10 +0300
From:      Lev Serebryakov <lev@serebryakov.spb.ru>
To:        Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Juniper e3k with ports limitied to 100Mbit and re NICs on MSI MoBo: problems with duplex negotiation (Hetzner host provider discard FreeBSD support due this bug)
Message-ID:  <149076940.20110112003110@serebryakov.spb.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20110111200007.GC6278@michelle.cdnetworks.com>
References:  <1512738982.20110111124729@serebryakov.spb.ru> <20110111200007.GC6278@michelle.cdnetworks.com>

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Hello, Pyun.
You wrote 11 =FF=ED=E2=E0=F0=FF 2011 =E3., 23:00:07:

> rgephy(4) currently always use auto-negotiation to work-around link
> establishment issues reported in past.
  I think, it is the root of the problem. Autonegotiation is DISABLED on
these ports. I think, some additional mediaopt (like
force-half-duplex) for rgephy(4) will be solution.

> For your case, the only way to address the issue at this moment is
> to use auto-negotiation but that would establish 1000baseT link
> which would add cost for you. Alternatively request half-duplex
> configuration to the provider to get a agreed link duplex.
   Maybe, adding new mediaopt is not very hard? Or is it?

--=20
// Black Lion AKA Lev Serebryakov <lev@serebryakov.spb.ru>




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