Re: What's wrong with autonegotiate

From: Debby Smit (debby_ar@YAHOO.COM)
Date: Wed Jan 14 2004 - 16:46:37 EST


For gigabit cards autonegotiate appears to be mandatory.

The following comment appears in IBM docs: "As per the IEEE 802.3z
specification, gigabit speeds of any duplexity must be auto-negotiated for
copper (TX) based adapters. Please select auto-negotiation if these speeds
are desired."

(see
http://www16.boulder.ibm.com/pseries/en_US/aixprggd/kernextc/ethernet_dd.htm
)



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