[c-nsp] Ethernet Interfaces Speed and Duplex - Force or Auto

[Jeff Wojciechowski]

No offense taken at all :o)

Just trying to soak up as much of the experience/gotchas/best practices/insight/etc that others have been through on this list and apply that to my environment.....

-Jeff

-----Original Message-----
From: Gert Doering [mailto:gert at greenie.muc.de] 
Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 12:15 PM
To: Jeff Wojciechowski
Cc: 'gert at greenie.muc.de'; 'cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net'
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Ethernet Interfaces Speed and Duplex - Force or Auto

Hi,

On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 12:07:36PM -0500, Jeff Wojciechowski wrote:
> I have done most of my learning this century so I am still somewhat 
> green - hence my post - and I have learned much by picking the brains 
> of vetrans.

I wasn't trying to pick on you - sorry if it came across that way.

It's more a matter of personal annoyance at network admins that refuse to acknowledge that devices change and problems evolve, and insist that "the rules that we have learned last century are cast in stone and must be followed to the end".  The auto-neg/no auto-neg discussion is very prototypical for that :-)

(Nothing bad in "learning from experience and designing rules/BCPs from there", but there must be room for adjustment and new experience every few years...)

gert
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