[Info-vax] DE500 and autonegotiation

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2013-01-03 15:47:21 +0000, B. Z. Lederman said:

> ...I was also told that the deficiencies were fixed in the 1000BaseT
> protocols, so another solution is to change your external Router /
> Hub / Switch to 1000BaseT.  My personal experience with some older
> Apple Macintosh systems that didn't autonegotiate correctly at
> 100BaseT is that they do work correctly on a 1000BaseT hub.  And since
> nearly all of the equipment you buy today is 1000BaseT or "better",
> that's also an easy solution, even if your NIC and the rest of the
> network are running at 100BaseT...

I've encountered GbE managed switches misnegotiating with mid-vintage 
EV6 Alpha gear.  (When you've got visibility within the switch, you can 
see this error far more easily, too.  Managed switches are getting much 
cheaper, too.)

At the site where that most recent misnegotiation happened, the NIC and 
the switch port are now both locked settings, with the ports tagged and 
labels on the switch and the wiring.

I've had far fewer issues with GbE NICs and GbE switches; that stuff 
finally seems to work fairly well.



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