[150029] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Common operational misconceptions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sven Olaf Kamphuis)
Fri Feb 17 12:43:20 2012
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:41:52 +0000 (UTC)
From: Sven Olaf Kamphuis <sven@cb3rob.net>
To: Jens Link <lists@quux.de>
In-Reply-To: <87obsxbbta.fsf@pc8.berlin.quux.de>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012, Jens Link wrote:
> Mathias Wolkert <tias@netnod.se> writes:
>
>> Autoneg. The old timers that don't trust it after a few decades of
>> decent code. Or those that lock one side and expect the other to adjust
>> to that.
you are referring to ehh *kuch* certain internet exchanges *kuch* ? :P
auto mdi/mii breaks teh internets! oeh noes! (not on any equipment we've
owned for the past 15 years... funny how that works ;)
>
> Autoneg is black magic. Doesn't work. You have manually configure duplex
> and speed on one side !!!!1!
>
> SCNR
>
> Jens
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