[CentOS] RTL8111/8168B always 100mbps

Tue Sep 27 15:20:29 UTC 2011
m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 9:27 AM, John Doe <jdmls at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> From: Brian Mathis <brian.mathis+centos at betteradmin.com>
>>
>>> If your first reaction is to disable auto-negotioation, please
>>> update your ways.  We are a decade into the 21st century, after all.
>>
>> Sure, I can update my ways.
>> I do want to live into the 21st century!  ^_^
>> But that does not solve this annoying auto-negotiation bug...
>
> Both sides have to negotiate.  The usual lingering problem is that
> someone configured the switch not to.

That's my thinking, which was why I suggested plugging another system with
a gigabit NIC into that port.

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