[54565] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Weird networking issue.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hank Nussbacher)
Wed Jan 8 00:26:08 2003
Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 07:25:15 +0200
To: "Peter E. Fry" <pfry@swbell.net>,
"nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Hank Nussbacher <hank@att.net.il>
In-Reply-To: <3E1B43FB.6D849C62@swbell.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
At 03:17 PM 07-01-03 -0600, Peter E. Fry wrote:
>"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.
Everything Cisco has to say on the subject:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps700/products_tech_note09186a00800a7af0.shtml
-Hank
[Thanks Yaron :-)]
>Peter E. Fry
