[Info-vax] DE500 and autonegotiation

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2013-01-02 20:11:31 +0000, Robert A. Brooks said:

>>> 
>>> There is never any reason to have VMS boxes autonegotiate, as far as
>>> I've found out.
> 
> I do not plan on starting a religious war, other than to pass along 
> (one again) the words of the guy who wrote and maintained the VMS 
> ethernet drivers for over 20 years (paraphrased).
> 
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> Autonegotiate should always work, assuming a properly-functioning 
> switch and card.  The VMS ethernet drivers are designed for 
> autonegotiate to work, and if there is a problem, we'll fix it.

That area has been a moving target, then?   The last time I chatted 
with that fellow, he was encouraging locked settings on Alpha and 
autonegotiate settings on Itanium, except where the VirtualConnect 
Flex10 gear was involved on Itanium and then locked settings, and — as 
per usual — he'd fix negotiation errors where they'd surface.  Well, 
that or my memory is shot.  Which is distinctly possible.


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