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)

[Pyun YongHyeon]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 08:56:19PM +0300, Lev Serebryakov wrote:
> Hello, Pyun.
> You wrote 12 января 2011 г., 20:32:42:
> 
> 
> >> > That had been supported for long time. Just remove full-duplex
> >> > media option in your manual configuration.
> >>   What do you mean by this? Without this media options it will be
> >>   100Mbit half-duplex when switch port want 100Mbit full-duplex. With
> > Because you have to rely on parallel detection the end result would
> > be half-duplex. So switch port could be configured to
> > 100Mbps/half-duplex and you can still use auto-negotiation. This
>    What if I CAN NOT configure switch port? It is
> 100Mbps/full-duplex/no-autonegotiation and it is not under my control!
> 

Of course that kind of workaround would not be available if you
have no reachability to the switch. I thought service provider can
do that by your request.

> -- 
> // Black Lion AKA Lev Serebryakov <lev at serebryakov.spb.ru>
>