Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262053AbVCAUaj (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Mar 2005 15:30:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262057AbVCAUai (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Mar 2005 15:30:38 -0500 Received: from uucp.cistron.nl ([62.216.30.38]:43204 "EHLO ncc1701.cistron.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262055AbVCAUaN (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Mar 2005 15:30:13 -0500 From: "Miquel van Smoorenburg" Subject: Re: Network speed Linux-2.6.10 Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 20:30:07 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Cistron Message-ID: References: <4224CE98.2060204@candelatech.com> <1109708691.14272.8.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: ncc1701.cistron.net 1109709007 12870 194.109.0.112 (1 Mar 2005 20:30:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@cistron.nl X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Originator: mikevs@cistron.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg) To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 745 Lines: 13 In article <1109708691.14272.8.camel@mindpipe>, Lee Revell 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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/