losing NFS connection

[jlb17 at duke.edu (Joshua Baker-LePain)]

On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 at 2:53pm, Marc Powell wrote

> > Anyone any idea what is wrong here?
> 
> Just a thought but have you hard-coded speed and duplex all the way
> through? Don't trust auto-negotiation.

Just a dissenting opinion here on that last bit.  No less a source than 
Donald Becker often advises *strongly* against disabling auto-negotiation.  
Yes, some switches *cough*Cisco*cough* historically did it very badly.  
But that was then, not now.  And, AIUI, it's actually part of the gbe 
standard.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University