Re: Auto 10/100Mb card fallback from 100 to 10 on 100Mb network
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 10:21:21PM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 04:25:14AM +0800, Jason Lim wrote:
>
> > Heres an interesting thing I tried. The cards came with a software disk
> > (needed msdos to boot) that allowed me to switch between 10Mb, 100Mb, and
> > Auto-neg. The cards are set by default to Auto-neg, as they should be. I
> > FORCED it to 100Mb to see what would happen. Sure enough, I successfully
> > got it to stay at 100Mb, but then the switch automatically disabled the
> > port after around 5-10 minutes, and said it shut the port down due to
> > "conflict". Thats it. Thats all it said (oh how helpful). This is a Cisco
> > switch btw.
>
> Can you just set the Cisco to not auto-negotiate and force the issue
> from the switch instead of from the node?
Come to think of it, have you confirmed that someone HASN'T done this to
the Cisco? :-)
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