[54557] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Weird networking issue.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeffrey Wheat)
Tue Jan 7 17:39:37 2003
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 17:36:10 -0500
From: "Jeffrey Wheat" <jeff@cetlink.net>
To: "Braun, Mike" <MBraun@firstam.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Even Cisco states in some of their documentation=20
that it is best to pin the interfaces to match=20
both ends. I have had many a strange issue with=20
auto negotiation depending on which side was up first.
Additionally, TAC usually says to never trust
auto negotiation.
Regards,
Jeff
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Braun, Mike [mailto:MBraun@firstam.com]=20
> Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 5:22 PM
> To: nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: RE: Weird networking issue.
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> I think we all agree that autonegotiation is evil, and should=20
> be avoided whenever possible. When you are looking for the=20
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter E. Fry [mailto:pfry@swbell.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 1:18 PM
> To: nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: Re: Weird networking issue.
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> "David G. Andersen" wrote:
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> > Rule number 1 with any ethernet: Check to make sure you have the=20
> > duplex and rate statically configured, and configured=20
> identically on=20
> > both ends of the connection. [...]
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