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)

[Lev Serebryakov]

Hello, Sthaug.
You wrote 12 января 2011 г., 12:14:14:

> Manual configuration of FD for 100 Mbps is not in violation of the
> standards. What the standards say (for 100 Mbps) is that *if* you have
> one end configured for autonegotiation *and* the other end is manually
> configured for full duplex, the autoneg end should end up as half duplex
> (with the inevitable errors as a result). This may be counterintuitive,
> but it's the way the standard is written.
  Ok, and according to output of Linux's tools, autonegotiation is
disabled on port, and full-duplex is set manually. And FreeBSD ignmore
manual settings for re(4)/regphy(4) adapters. Here is a problem :(

> For Gigabit Ethernet autonegotiation is *required* by the standard, as
> other people already have pointed out.
  Yes, and it works, but cost additional money, which is comparable to
price of server itself :(

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