[120037] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Linux shaping packet loss
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sthaug@nethelp.no)
Tue Dec 8 11:15:21 2009
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:13:42 +0100 (CET)
To: MatlockK@exempla.org
From: sthaug@nethelp.no
In-Reply-To: <4288131ED5E3024C9CD4782CECCAD2C7065D3CEC@LMC-MAIL2.exempla.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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> The biggest problem with duplex had to do with 100mb.
>
> Cisco (and a lot of other companies) decided in their infinite wisdom
> that at 100mb if auto-negotiation fails, to use half duplex as the
> default.
No, that wasn't those companies deciding to do so in their infinite
wisdom. That was those companies deciding to follow the IEEE standard!
Cisco and others may be to blame for a lot of things, but not this one.
Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no
