[Gllug] GLLUG: NICs

Mark Lowes hamster at korenwolf.net
Wed Jan 29 16:25:06 UTC 2003


On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 11:53, Jason Clifford wrote:
> The answer to that will depend upon the NIC and the switch you are using.
> Usually if your switch is correctly configured the card will auto 
> negotiate and get the right speed setting.

We find that this varies with the card and with the phase of the moon, a
number of the more critical machines here are hardcoded at both ends
because the switch and/or the box get it wrong at least 50% of the time,
watch that packet loss...



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