Juniper e3k with ports limitied to 100Mbit and re NICs on MSI MoBo: problems with duplex negotiation (Hetzner host provider discard FreeBSD support due this bug)

Brian Reichert reichert at numachi.com
Tue Jan 11 19:58:15 UTC 2011


On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 09:39:33PM +0200, Artyom Viklenko wrote:
> 11.01.2011 21:29, Lev Serebryakov ?????:
> Looks very strange for me... 'HD' means half-duplex?
> 
> May be linux driver defaults to full-duplex if autoneg fails?..

I've seen some Linux drivers fail back to half-duplex under these
circumstances.

It may very well depend on driver version and hardware (firmware)?

I admit, I don't know what layer is responsible for handling
autonegotiation...

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