On 20 December 2011 14:34, Tony Mountifield <tony at softins.co.uk> wrote: > In article <4EF0939C.9030907 at emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com>, > William Warren <hescominsoon at emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com> wrote: >> On 12/20/2011 12:59 AM, Barry Brimer wrote: >> >> 1. The switch being used has autoneg off and has port set to 100 full duplex. >> >> 2. 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-should-be-set/ mike