[c-nsp] Question about manually configuring 1000/Full on Cisco switches

[John Neiberger]

On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 6:18 PM,  <Christopher.Marget at usc-bt.com> wrote:
> "speed 1000" on a copper port capable of 10/100/1000 disables 10 and 100 Mb/s operation by removing those modes from the list of those advertised to the link partner.
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> This may be useful if you would prefer a cable failure on pins 4, 5, 7 or 8 to drop the link and keep it down, rather than renegotiating it at 100 Mb/s.
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> N-way still runs.
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> /chris

That's what I thought. So, if a link is already successfully
negotiating at 1000/Full with no errors, there really is no point in
hard setting it to 1000/Full, in my opinion.