[SunRescue] Re: Woah, a PCI Ultra 1

[James Lockwood]

On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Jonathan [no, I don't write for /.] Katz wrote:

> networks. I've also seen the hme NICs on an e4k have difficulty talking to
> a Cisco Catalyst which had its port hard-set at 100Mbit/FDX because it
> "auto-negotiated" to 100HDX. A little ndd (did you know you could force
> your hme chipset to re-autonegotiate while life?) and /etc/system magic
> fixed that. 

This is normal behaviour.  If you disable autonegotiation at the switch
end there is no universal way to determine duplexing.  If you must lock
the port parameters (which is really fairly rare) you must do so at both
ends.

-James