Different vendors implement auto-negotiate in different ways, and sometimes
those ways are at odds... There is no way to tell whether the firmware in a
given vendor's NIC is going to respond and react as Cisco expects it too in
an autonegotiation process. As a general rule of thumb, regardless of
vendor, when it really matters - explicitly set it... don't do
auto-negotiation.
Dale
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>From: Doug Laing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: Doug Laing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: auto-negotiate not reliable
>Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 11:54:41 -0400
>
>Can someone explain to me why auto-negotiate on a Catalyst 5500 and a
>NIC is not always reliable.
>
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