Re: Strange e1000

["Henning P. Schmiedehausen" <hps@intermeta.de>]

Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> writes:

>On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 07:49:28PM +0530, Abhishek Agrawal wrote:
>> On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 19:11, Paul Rolland wrote:
>> 
>> > Could it be possible that the 1000MBps FD on the e1000 side is
>> > a local configuration, and that it needs some time to discuss with
>> > the Netgear switch to negotiate correctly speed and duplex before
>> > working correctly ? (i.e. 20 sec = negotiation time)
>> Autoneg must be completed within 2 sec, or else it is considered as
>> failed.

>If we follow this rule, we have lots of Cisco and other network gear
>that will not be able to communicate with Linux.

2 seconds sound like "spanning-tree portfast" in Cisco-speak. 20
seconds sounds like normal configuration. Both are legal and work with
normal FE gear. It might be possible that you must deactivate
spanning-tree if you don't connect a switch.

I personally found the 20 second break always annoying so I routinely
disable it on my catalysts. :-)

	Regards
		Henning

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