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)

[Bernd Walter]

On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 10:37:31PM +0300, Lev Serebryakov wrote:
> Hello, Brian.
> You wrote 11 ?????? 2011 ?., 22:29:13:
> 
> >   basic mode:   100 Mbit, full duplex
> >   link partner: 100baseTx-HD
>   It looks VERY strange. How could id be?

This is normal if the link partner doesn't do autonegotiation.
The system has to assume a simple repeater hub and do half duplex.
If on the other hand the switch is hard set to full-duplex then they
can't expect autonegotiation to do it right.
However hard setting under FreeBSD as well should work.

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B.Walter <bernd at bwct.de> http://www.bwct.de
Modbus/TCP Ethernet I/O Baugruppen, ARM basierte FreeBSD Rechner uvm.