[54548] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Weird networking issue.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter E. Fry)
Tue Jan 7 16:21:56 2003
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2003 15:17:47 -0600
From: "Peter E. Fry" <pfry@swbell.net>
To: "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
"David G. Andersen" wrote:
>
> Rule number 1 with any ethernet: Check to make sure you have the duplex
> and rate statically configured, and configured identically on both ends of
> the connection. [...]
I'd like to thank Cisco for this piece of advice, as the only company
incapable of manufacturing Ethernet equipment capable of
autonegotiation. At least until 1999 or so.
Yeah, there're a few others, all of which seemed to follow Cisco's
lead. Nutty.
Peter E. Fry
