[CentOS] how to enable Flow Control on CentOS?

Ian Forde ianforde at gmail.com
Mon Jul 11 03:19:33 UTC 2011


On Sun, 2011-07-10 at 22:08 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On 7/9/11 12:18 PM, Giles Coochey wrote:
> > Gigabit is different.
> 
> No, the default of auto-negotiating  works there too.
> 

In 1000BASE-T, autonegotiation is required, according to 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabit_Ethernet#1000BASE-T

Which, in turn, refers to (click through without username required)
http://standards.ieee.org/getieee802/download/802.3-2008_section2.pdf
that states (in section 28D.5, part a) that Auto-negotiation in
1000BASE-T is required...

	-I




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