Continuing our ongoing discussions of autonegotiation and the behavior of newer switches I thought I'd forward the following link:
http://www.psiber.com/lm25ap01.htm The introduction on that page does an excellent job of explaining some of the problems we've been running into. I take issue with one statement, though. They suggest that you use AUTO when possible, or hard-set each end-device to the same commanded mode, whether 100/Full or 100/Half. I contend that with many modern NICs, a commanded setting of 100/Full is the worst possible setting and you should only use half duplex modes when choosing manual settings. Many NICs will fall back to half duplex when they detect a commanded mode link partner, and they usually don't give you any indication that this has occurred! Regards, John Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=73195&t=73195 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
