[c-nsp] Deferred packets on 2950 10/full interface

[Niels Bakker]

* John.Neiberger at efirstbank.com (John Neiberger) [Fri 14 Jan 2005, 23:56 CET]:
> When you hard-set these settings on the 2950, autonegotiation is
> completely disabled. However, many devices still participate in
> autonegotiation even when their settings have been set manually. They
> would simply only offer their manually configured settings as being
> available. If that type of device is manually configured for full duplex
> but it does not detect an autonegotiating device on the other end, it
> will assume that it is connected to a hub and will drop back to half
> duplex regardless of the configured settings.

This sounds completely crazy.  Can you name vendors whose equipment
performs according to this atrocity?


	-- Niels.

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