[NTLUG:Discuss] ntlug.org back from the dead again

[Burton Strauss]

Even hard-coded, switches are supposed to advertise themselves as their hard
coded attributes and it SHOULD work. But as you point out, old gear often
mis-implemented that.

As for why 10 - it's an effective albeit crude form of bandwidth limitation.

-----Burton 

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From: discuss-bounces at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at ntlug.org] On Behalf
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Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 4:17 PM
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Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] ntlug.org back from the dead again

joseph beasley wrote:
> We normally force servers to 100/full and workstations to auto.  
> Unless it is my desktop of course.  Then it's 100/full also.

By definition if one side is auto and the other is fixed, you'll go end up
with half.... however one side will probably believe it is full and the
other half... and many switches will dumb it all the way down to 10baseT
half because of all of the errors.

Speak up network guys!

My understanding from my own experience:

Auto+Auto=works
Auto+Hard coded=no workie (theplanet.com)
Hard coded+Hard coded=works if both set the same
   (this is what ntlug.org is doing now that
    I know they hard code their ports)

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