adding 1G ethernet to a 100M network

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 03:42:20PM -0400, aaron d wrote:
> That may be, but it is a violation of the IEEE802.3ab spec that states
> autoneg is mandatory for GigE and above.

Yeah there is that part too, since GigE requires it for pin assignment
and master selection.  I suspect this port was 100Mbit Full Duplex
(not 100Gbit as originally stated), so GigE rules don't apply.

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