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SubjectRe: Network speed Linux-2.6.10
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On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 20:30 +0000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> In article <1109708691.14272.8.camel@mindpipe>,
> Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> wrote:
> >On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 12:20 -0800, Ben Greear wrote:
> >> What happens if you just don't muck with the NIC and let it auto-negotiate
> >> on it's own?
> >
> >This can be asking for trouble too (auto negotiation is often buggy).
> >What if you hard set them both to 100/full?
>
> If you do that you also need to force the switchports to full duplex.
> Lots of switches default to half-duplex without auto-negotiation.
>

Yup, that was exactly what we ended up doing.

Lee

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