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AFAIK auto-negotiation is mandatory for gigabit connections. So it should be sufficient to switch this on. OTOH settting auto-negotiation on and then setting things by hand sounds contradictory.
AFAIK auto-negotiation is mandatory for gigabit connections. So it should be sufficient to switch this on. OTOH settting auto-negotiation on and then setting things by hand sounds contradictory.
Yes, my understanding is that gig MUST do negotiations in order to come up properly, as the protocol was written with this in mind, as opposed to 10/100 negotation which was a late addition when 100/full came along without writing a proper standard for it., and so pretty ropey.
You can't have it both ways, speed and duplex configuration need to be either hard coded or set to auto. While it is possible to manually configure speed and duplex (remember you will need to do this at the switch as well as NIC) on some devices it is generally best left set to auto in a gig environment.
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