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

[Seth Mattinen]

On 5/21/2010 12:10, Jeff Kell wrote:
> On 5/21/2010 2:34 PM, Jason Gurtz wrote:
>> There *is* some stuff around here that doesn't auto-neg properly--100% old
>> scada-related gear.
>>   
> 
> There are still corner cases of 10/100 autoneg issues, I concur with
> others and  locally run autoneg  by default and hard-code exceptions
> (less than a dozen in 20K ports).
> 
> For those thinking hard coding more than necessary, note that
> autonegotiation is *mandatory* on 1000TX ethernet (at least to comply
> with IEEE specs). 
> 


And if by some chance your vendor doesn't support autoneg on 1000TX it's
time to find a new vendor.

~Seth