Common operational misconceptions

Sven Olaf Kamphuis sven at cb3rob.net
Fri Feb 17 17:41:52 UTC 2012


On Fri, 17 Feb 2012, Jens Link wrote:

> Mathias Wolkert <tias at netnod.se> writes:
>
>> Autoneg. The old timers that don't trust it after a few decades of
>> decent code. Or those that lock one side and expect the other to adjust
>> to that.

you are referring to ehh *kuch* certain internet exchanges *kuch* ? :P

auto mdi/mii breaks teh internets! oeh noes! (not on any equipment we've 
owned for the past 15 years... funny how that works ;)

>
> Autoneg is black magic. Doesn't work. You have manually configure duplex
> and speed on one side !!!!1!
>
> SCNR
>
> Jens
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