adding 1G ethernet to a 100M network

[aaron d]

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 3:08 PM, CLIFFORD ILKAY
<clifford_ilkay-biY6FKoJMRdBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org>wrote:

>
> By fixing the rate, they can differentiate between 10M, 100M, and 1000M
> service and charge accordingly. This episode explained why in another colo
> facility where we didn't have a switch between the server and the colo
> facility's switch, we had to use ethtool to set the rate or again, we'd fall
> back to 10M, half-duplex. That colo facility was never able to explain why
> and had just shrugged it off.
>

That may be, but it is a violation of the IEEE802.3ab spec that states
autoneg is mandatory for GigE and above.
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