On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 02:22:15PM -0800, Peter/Los Angeles, CA wrote: > Please correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it kind of strange that > auto-sensing/auto-negotiating must be enabled on both sides for the feature > to work a bit strange? > > At home, I have a Netgear FS116, a 16-Port unmanaged switch. It is > auto-sensing/full-duplex 10/100Mbits/sec switch. Therefore, we cannot > control how it will behave. > > On the other hand, I have network cards on my computer which I can set to > full/half/auto/10/100, whatever combination I like, and yet, the switch will > continue to work. > > What I'm getting at is that just because one end is not set to > auto-negotiate/auto-sense that there will be no communication at all. Say, > that one end is set manually, and the other end is automatic. The automatic > end will set itself to the parameters of the one that is manually set. This > is how my network works. Thus, I don't believe that both ends, need to be > set the same way in order to work in this scenario. > > The automatic will automatically negotiate/auto-sense to whatever can't be > changed, as a result, they work. Or is this even what you folks are arguing > about?
I do not know if this is written in the standard, but I have seen devices where if you turn off AutoNeg, they won't respond at all to the packets. But I have also seens devices which will still respond, but just to their fixed setting. I personal prefer it that if I turn off autoneg, it won't do anything, because that gives you a fixed point. Any production system I always set switch and host to full 100. -- Regards, Ulf. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-865-0204 You can find my resume at: http://seven.Alameda.net/~ulf/resume.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
