[c-nsp] autonegotiation fail

[Mikael Abrahamsson]

On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, John Neiberger wrote:

> Be *very* careful when manually setting your speed and duplex settings 
> on the newer switches, like the 2950. Manually setting these parameters 
> can cause you more problems that it's worth. You should always use 
> autonegotiation unless you have a specific situation that requires 
> manual settings. In my experience over the past three years, this is

I usually recommend doing this:

speed auto
duplex full

This means the switch is still doing autoneg but if it's connected to a 
10FD or 100FD hard set switch, it still behaves correctly, as speed can 
always be detected whether autoneg is on or off.

If the other end unit is a hub or is hard set to HD, then it of course 
will fail miserably.

-- 
Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se