[geeks] Seems like low-cost Cisco 10/100 switches are available

[Alois Hammer]

Sadly, it's been a while since I got my hands on an IOS or CatOS device 
(Intel Express 510T and 520T switches at home).  I think the answer is:
probably, for some hardware, and some f/w revisions.  I know I can do it
with most Intel NICs from 8255x and up, all nForce ifaces, and some
other NICs.  However, I've never done it or been able to do it in
practice, and "autonegotiate to X setting" has produced iffy results for
me on the NIC end.  Actually, in the case of nForce ifaces, I've never
gotten anything to work, other than "auto."

On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:11:12 -0400 (EDT), "Sandwich Maker"
<adh at an.bradford.ma.us> said:
> " From: "Alois Hammer" <aloishammer at casearmour.net>
> " 
> " When I was working in an environment of seven Catalyst 3524/3548
> " switches and a 2924, I had a large batch of HP desktops with 3C920
> " (3C905C embedded) NICs, all turned out of the factory at the same time. 
> " Whether or not they autonegotiated correctly depended on *which switch
> " port* they were attached to.  Some switch ports worked, most didn't. 
> " When I got there, it was taking anything up to five minutes to get
> " domain creds from the local NT4 DCs.  After I forced speed and duplex
> on
> " all the ports in the warehouse -- except for some embedded devices that
> " refused to connect *unless* they were allowed to autonegotiate -- login
> " time dropped by about 95% for most people.
> 
> can you pull the same trick with catalysts that you can with suns?
> advertise autoneg but with only 1 speed available.
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