Comments on: Are your ethernet lines configured correctly? http://projectdream.org/wordpress/2007/09/18/are-your-ethernet-lines-configured-correctly/ The experiences of an SMB IT technician Sun, 11 Dec 2011 20:09:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Ihsan Dogan http://projectdream.org/wordpress/2007/09/18/are-your-ethernet-lines-configured-correctly/comment-page-1/#comment-1466 Ihsan Dogan Tue, 18 Sep 2007 20:12:51 +0000 http://projectdream.org/wordpress/2007/09/18/are-your-ethernet-lines-configured-correctly/#comment-1466 Link mismatch is a very common mistake. Just because 10 years ago Cisco had a switch which had difficulties with autoneg, many people are forcing the speed to 100 full. What does that mean? That means, you've got tow pieces of hardware, which work just out of the box. Then you bring them into a state, where they don't work anymore together. And then, somehow, you make it work again. The good thing about Gigabit is, that autoneg is mandatory. Link mismatch is a very common mistake. Just because 10 years ago Cisco had a switch which had difficulties with autoneg, many people are forcing the speed to 100 full.

What does that mean? That means, you’ve got tow pieces of hardware, which work just out of the box. Then you bring them into a state, where they don’t work anymore together. And then, somehow, you make it work again.

The good thing about Gigabit is, that autoneg is mandatory.

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