On Tue, 03 Jul 2001 17:20:47 EDT, Jeld The Dark Elf writes: >On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 09:53:58PM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote: >> I?m a network engineer for a living, and trust me, the only way to be >> sure there won?t be something wrong with autodetection is to avoid it. >> >> Setting speed and duplex on _both_ sides of an ethernet link is a Good >> Thing. Always. >> >Well, I have been a network engineer for about 7 years by now, and except for >some >older 3com 100baseT I didn't have that much trouble with autodetection. You´ve never done Crisco against (3com|bay|nortel|whatever-even-other-criscos|fsckinSUN\!\!) yet? Or witnessed the evils that come out of cheapo-hubs´n´switches against cheapo-NICsonPeCees? Never dealt with the wonders which are transceivers (AUI->whatever)? Back2backXover between two same-day-ordered&delivered 7k2´s? Furrfu, you´re one of the really, really lucky ones, yes you are. Me, I´m just in Real Life, where all Software Sucks and all Hardware Sucks even more so. Me? Cynical? Geez. cheers, &rw -- -- "The PROPER way to handle HTML postings is to cancel the article, -- then hire a hitman to kill the poster, his wife and kids, and fuck -- his dog and smash his computer into little bits. Anything more is -- just extremism." - Paul Tomblin ----
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