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

[Mikael Abrahamsson]

On Sat, 15 Jan 2005, Niels Bakker wrote:

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

On Sun:s 100meg ethernet interfaces you can enable or disable 
"capabilities". If you disable the machines capability to choose 10/h, 
10/f and 100/h, it'll only do 100/full, but still announce via autoneg 
that it does so and thus if the other end runs autoneg, it'll autoneg to 
100/f.

Working at an ISP, I would LOVE for cisco to implement this (I have a 
feature request in for this as of a year ago), because it would save us a 
ton of operational problems with customers that force 100/full when we 
have autoneg, and the other way around. I see no reason to stop 
negotiating/announcing what you're set to, just because it's set to a 
specific value?

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se