[c-nsp] autonegotiating hub was: Deferred packets on 2950 10/full interface

[lee.e.rian at census.gov]

Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike at swm.pp.se> wrote on 01/15/2005 04:05:31 AM:

> On Sat, 15 Jan 2005, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
>
> > > This sounds completely crazy.  Can you name vendors whose equipment
> > > performs according to this atrocity?
> >
> > was non autonegotiating.  This caused problems with many
autonegotiating
> > hubs as the card had problems figuring out if something was
>
> Speaking of atrocity, what is an "autonegotiating hub"?

Anything marketed as a dual-speed or 10/100 hub.

> I would say that
> is a contradiction in terms as a hub always is half duplex and has no
need
> to autonegotiate? Or are you talking about some kind of switch?

Cheap combination of both - they act like there's an internal 2 port switch
for switching traffic between the 10Mb hub ports and the 100Mb hub ports.

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lee