20 Dec
2011
20 Dec
'11
4:53 p.m.
On 20 December 2011 14:34, Tony Mountifield tony@softins.co.uk wrote:
In article 4EF0939C.9030907@emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com, William Warren hescominsoon@emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com wrote:
On 12/20/2011 12:59 AM, Barry Brimer wrote:
- The switch being used has autoneg off and has port set to 100 full duplex.
- Many times NIC fails to come up properly during PXE boot:
Any other ideas?
udev rules? mii-tool?
re-enable autoneg on switch?
Indeed.
unless the switchports are *really* old then there is no excuse to have auto-negotiation disabled
point resisting network admins to this post by this guy - Greg Ferro (CCIE #6920)
http://etherealmind.com/ethernet-autonegotiation-works-why-how-standard-shou...
mike