From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261962AbTDEI3m (for ); Sat, 5 Apr 2003 03:29:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261964AbTDEI3m (for ); Sat, 5 Apr 2003 03:29:42 -0500 Received: from mail.hometree.net ([212.34.181.120]:15849 "EHLO mail.hometree.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261962AbTDEI3l (for ); Sat, 5 Apr 2003 03:29:41 -0500 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: not-for-mail From: "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" Newsgroups: hometree.linux.kernel Subject: Re: Strange e1000 Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2003 08:41:11 +0000 (UTC) Organization: INTERMETA - Gesellschaft fuer Mehrwertdienste mbH Message-ID: References: <043501c2faaf$da061e10$3f00a8c0@witbe> <1049465969.3324.40.camel@abhilinux.cygnet.co.in> <20030404181400.GA26545@gtf.org> Reply-To: hps@intermeta.de NNTP-Posting-Host: forge.intermeta.de X-Trace: tangens.hometree.net 1049532071 28449 212.34.181.4 (5 Apr 2003 08:41:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@intermeta.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2003 08:41:11 +0000 (UTC) X-Copyright: (C) 1996-2003 Henning Schmiedehausen X-No-Archive: yes User-Agent: nn/6.6.5 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jeff Garzik 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 -- Dipl.-Inf. (Univ.) Henning P. Schmiedehausen INTERMETA GmbH hps@intermeta.de +49 9131 50 654 0 http://www.intermeta.de/ Java, perl, Solaris, Linux, xSP Consulting, Web Services freelance consultant -- Jakarta Turbine Development -- hero for hire