On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Rick Jones wrote: > > Another scenario: forcing the NIC to negotiate only full-duplex speeds. Not > > only fun if you try it against a hub, but possibly useful. [...] > I'm just worried (as in Fear Uncertainty and Doubt) that having people set the > allowed things to negotiate isn't really any more robust than stright-up > hardcodes and perpetuates the (IMO) myth that one shouldn't autoneg on general > principle.
Older equipment, which may still be in use here and there, allowed full-duplex operation, but no auto-negotiation. The duplex setting was either fixed or selectable in a system-specific manner. In such a case you certainly want your modern other end to be forced to full-duplex, but still let it detect the link speed, so that you do not have to do reconfiguration whenever you move a link between a 10base-T and a 100base-Tx port. Maciej - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
