Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262055AbVCAUh2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Mar 2005 15:37:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262054AbVCAUh2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Mar 2005 15:37:28 -0500 Received: from mustang.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.3]:49374 "HELO mustang.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262055AbVCAUgz (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Mar 2005 15:36:55 -0500 Subject: Re: Network speed Linux-2.6.10 From: Lee Revell To: Miquel van Smoorenburg Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: <4224CE98.2060204@candelatech.com> <1109708691.14272.8.camel@mindpipe> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 15:36:49 -0500 Message-Id: <1109709409.17405.4.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 880 Lines: 23 On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 20:30 +0000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > 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. > Yup, that was exactly what we ended up doing. Lee - 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/