Re: Disable autoneg on r8169?

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On 20 December 2011 14:34, Tony Mountifield <tony@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In article <4EF0939C.9030907@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> William Warren <hescominsoon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 12/20/2011 12:59 AM, Barry Brimer wrote:
>> >> 1. The switch being used has autoneg off and has port set to 100 full duplex.
>> >> 2. Many times NIC fails to come up properly during PXE boot:
>> >>
>> >> Any other ideas?
>> > udev rules?
>> > mii-tool?
>
>> re-enable autoneg on switch?
>
> Indeed.


unless the switchports are *really* old then there is no excuse to
have auto-negotiation disabled

point resisting network admins to this post by this guy - Greg Ferro
(CCIE #6920)

http://etherealmind.com/ethernet-autonegotiation-works-why-how-standard-should-be-set/

mike
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