On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Ryan Novosielski wrote: > That's not the behavior I've seen however. THAT I understand, and if I'm > not mistaken, it is per spec. However, what I've seen is many cases > where I said to our telecomm staff "please leave that port at > autonegotiate" and then hooked up equipment -- in my case, both Solaris > and IRIX machines, and with no other change made to their configuration > (both have autonegotiate as their default behavior), the machine > negotiates to 100/Half. I can't 100% prove, as I do not have access to > the routers, that the ports were set to auto, but I'm sure they know > what they're doing.
Having worked on the telco side of the equation as a tech and a manager, I think you have too much faith in the listening and comprehension abilities of the average Telco tech. Whenever I've encountered this, sure enough, bozo techie has locked the speed and duplex (or left it locked, or unlocked the wrong port). I've seen techs do far, far worse things - about 90% of the maintenance requirement of the old switches was actually due to ham-handed humans fiddling with the switchgear in the first place - particularly Stromberg stepping equipment... AB ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
