[c-nsp] SFP, ZX and 12.2(18)SXE

[Elmar K. Bins]

gert at greenie.muc.de (Gert Doering) wrote:

> > How do you live with this if you never see a link failure?
> 
> UDLD might mitigate this.
> 
> (What I don't understand about all this is "why is it so difficult to
> get Gbit ethernet with negotiation right?"...)

AFAICS, these problems only occur on optical links. Gbit on copper actually
_needs_ a lot of autonegotiation. Hell, they even negotiate which wires to
use. I have never seen Gbit/copper autonegotiation fail.

Elmar.

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