PC Routers

[Neil Watson]

On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 10:39:43PM -0500, CLIFFORD ILKAY wrote:
>gigabit switch, and all the servers had gigabit NICs, the best we 
>could manage on the servers was 10Mb/s. The colo facility's Cisco 
>switch was configured to be 100Mb/s and consumer-grade switches like 
>the D-Link apparently don't auto-negotiate down to 100Mb/s as I 
>thought it would. It fell to the lowest common denominator, 10Mb/s.

I blame Cisco for this.  Cisco often recommend manually configuring
their switch ports to a set speed.  This often breaks auto-negotiation.

-- 
Neil Watson
Linux/UNIX Consultant
http://watson-wilson.ca
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