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Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> writes: >On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 07:49:28PM +0530, Abhishek Agrawal wrote: >> On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 19:11, Paul Rolland wrote: >> >> > Could it be possible that the 1000MBps FD on the e1000 side is >> > a local configuration, and that it needs some time to discuss with >> > the Netgear switch to negotiate correctly speed and duplex before >> > working correctly ? (i.e. 20 sec = negotiation time) >> Autoneg must be completed within 2 sec, or else it is considered as >> failed. >If we follow this rule, we have lots of Cisco and other network gear >that will not be able to communicate with Linux. 2 seconds sound like "spanning-tree portfast" in Cisco-speak. 20 seconds sounds like normal configuration. Both are legal and work with normal FE gear. It might be possible that you must deactivate spanning-tree if you don't connect a switch. I personally found the 20 second break always annoying so I routinely disable it on my catalysts. :-) Regards Henning -- Dipl.-Inf. (Univ.) Henning P. Schmiedehausen INTERMETA GmbH hps@intermeta.de +49 9131 50 654 0 http://www.intermeta.de/ Java, perl, Solaris, Linux, xSP Consulting, Web Services freelance consultant -- Jakarta Turbine Development -- hero for hire - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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