Never tried this, but I am assuming that if you attempt 100M across CAT3, you would see errors accumulate on the switch port at a pretty substantial rate??? If that is the case, I would initially set everything to auto-detect and watch the switch port statistics. After a little while, I would think it would be clear which were the problem ports. You could then go through and hard code them to 10-full and all other to 100-full on both ends. Easiest of course would be just to set everything to 10-full. Depends on need I suppose...
Charles -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of M.C. van den Bovenkamp Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 7:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 10 half or 100 full [7:64482] Mike Momb wrote: > very well. My question is this, what has been this groups experience on how > to set the ports for the maximum bandwith. We are using a combination of > Cat 5 & Cat 3 cables. Any advice would be appreciated. CAT3? Ouch. If you can't be *very* sure which cable run is what (CAT3 vs. CAT5), forcing everything to 10/Full is as good as it's going to get, because CAT3 won't support 100Mbps. Which also makes autonegotiation A Very Bad Idea, as that will happily negotiate 100Mbps over CAT3, even when it does what it's supposed to. Regards, Marco. Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=64547&t=64482 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
