Re: Network speed Linux-2.6.10

[Miquel van Smoorenburg]

In article <1109708691.14272.8.camel@mindpipe>,
Lee Revell  <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 12:20 -0800, Ben Greear wrote:
>> What happens if you just don't muck with the NIC and let it auto-negotiate
>> on it's own?
>
>This can be asking for trouble too (auto negotiation is often buggy).
>What if you hard set them both to 100/full?

If you do that you also need to force the switchports to full duplex.
Lots of switches default to half-duplex without auto-negotiation.

Mike.

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