From: Green, Simon (Simon.Green@EU.ALTRIA.COM)
Date: Fri Apr 11 2003 - 12:58:35 EDT
It's a bit short-sighted of them to look on it as less work. Maybe in the
short term - just plug stuff in and it'll work - but it seems to cause no
end of problems, so they'll probably have to change it sooner or later, and
someone will probably waste a load of time trying to figure out a problem
before they do.
With modern switches - configurable over the network - it's going to take
them all of two minutes to set the speed.
Simon Green
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Jolet [mailto:john.jolet@FXFN.COM]
> Sent: 11 April 2003 17:52
> To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> Subject: Re: ftp speed
>
>
> I wholeheartedly agree. Unfortunately, the last couple of
> places i've been,
> i don't have control over the switches and the networking
> folks (rightly so)
> see autonegotiation as less work for them. Having said that,
> i think it's
> worth the effort, if you can, to specify EVERYTHING. that
> way there are
> fewer "surprises". auto seems to work best when the nic and
> the switch are
> from the same vendor...imagine that.
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