Subject: Re: Network speed Linux-2.6.10
From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: linux-os@analogic.com, Linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
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Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 15:35:31 -0500
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On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 12:30 -0800, Ben Greear wrote:
> 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?
> 
> I have not noticed any buggy autonegotiation with the e100 driver in several
> years...
> 

Sorry, I misread the post.  He tried this.

I was under the impression this was due to inconsistent implementation
of autonegotiation in hardware.  When I was an ISP sysadmin we had this
problem with various devices (Cisco switches, Linux and BSD/OS
machines).  A device would get power cycled and one side would come up
100/full, the other 100/half.   We ended up hard setting everything.

Lee

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