From: Paul LaMadeleine (plamadeleine@LIGHTBRIDGE.COM)
Date: Fri Apr 11 2003 - 13:07:22 EDT
We got around this by have our network group lock all ports to 100/full as
that is what 99% of our hardware runs with. It's a one time change and
little work. Then if we need something different they just change one line.
This is just for our data center switches as most of the PCs on the
desktops are still auto/auto.
Paul
At 06:58 PM 4/11/2003 +0200, Green, Simon wrote:
>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
>Altria ITSC Europe s.a.r.l.
>
>AIX-L Archive at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=aix-l&r=1&w=2
>AIX FAQ at http://www.faqs.org/faqs/aix-faq/
>
>N.B. Unsolicited email from vendors will not be appreciated.
>
> > -----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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