[Gllug] What's that network congestion setting called?

[Ian Northeast]

Tethys wrote:

> As far as I can tell, Cisco switches are incapabale of autonegotiating
> correctly with *anything*. 

They'll autonegotiate with other Cisco switches:) And presumably their 
routers.

And they'll autonegotiate gigabit correctly of course, that's not 
optional. Gigabit mandates autnegotiation. I know some Linux gigabit NIC 
drivers allow a forced setting of gigabit, but they shouldn't really. 
AIX ones don't (AIX will of course also not autonegotiate 10 or 100 with 
a Cisco switch. IBM put it rather diplomatically: "IBM and Cisco 
implemented autonegotiation slightly differently").

Also it's not really possible to get gigabit wrong as the link speed can 
be detected independantly of autonegotiation and gigabit is always full 
duplex.

Regards, Ian

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