I’ve never seen this (other than REALLY old equipment that didn’t support auto speed/duplex period).
And with GigE and above, I thought auto was the only recommended method. Cisco has grown mostly via acquisitions, so much of their equipment was not originally designed by “Cisco” engineers. Not sure why people assume putting the Cisco logo on the box suddenly gives something bad Ethernet characteristics. More likely, Cisco products tend to have a lot of configurable port parameters, and the defaults may not be to everyone’s liking. I think a common one is the several second delay before entering the forwarding state, if you have STP enabled without PortFast. People view this as a problem, rather than a default setting you can easily change if it bothers you. From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Chuck McCown Sent: Monday, February 6, 2017 8:54 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Cisco Nexus Switch / Mikrotik CCR I have had Cisco products not negotiate to the highest possible connection before. So I always locked one end down. From: Ken Hohhof Sent: Monday, February 06, 2017 7:52 AM To: af@afmug.com <mailto:af@afmug.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Cisco Nexus Switch / Mikrotik CCR Why do some people always say “turn off auto speed and duplex” when they see Cisco? This goes against my experience and training. All my Cisco routers and switches are set for auto. The world has not ended AFAIK. Is this something unique to the Nexus product line? From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Carlos Alcantar Sent: Monday, February 6, 2017 2:01 AM To: af@afmug.com <mailto:af@afmug.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Cisco Nexus Switch / Mikrotik CCR make sure you turn off any auto duplex and speed settings and hard set both sides. make sure your also checking all your stp settings those could be fun and shutting down ports if you have any type of vlan mismatches ect happening. Carlos Alcantar Race Communications / Race Team Member 1325 Howard Ave. #604, Burlingame, CA. 94010 Phone: +1 415 376 3314 / car...@race.com <mailto:car...@race.com> / <http://www.race.com/> http://www.race.com _____ From: Af <af-boun...@afmug.com <mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com> > on behalf of Jason McKemie <j.mcke...@veloxinetbroadband.com <mailto:j.mcke...@veloxinetbroadband.com> > Sent: Sunday, February 5, 2017 11:11:48 PM To: af@afmug.com <mailto:af@afmug.com> Subject: [AFMUG] Cisco Nexus Switch / Mikrotik CCR Has anyone had any success with linking these two via fiber? We were unable to get the link to work, so I ended up using a Cisco router as an intermediary. I'd like to get rid of that extra hardware if possible. -Jason
