PC Routers

James Knott james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Thu Dec 22 16:12:03 UTC 2011


Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> I personally hate when people turn off autonegotiation, but some
> networking people seem to think they know better and that forcing 100mbit
> full duplex because that's what they want is better.  They then forget
> to bother telling other people that that is the setting you must use.
>
> Of course a consumer switch generally has no settings, so it always
> negotiates.  Not a good combination.
Yep.  I have configure many industrial level switches and always use 
auto-negotiate, unless there was some specific reason for manual config.
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