There are some gotchas among autonegotiation as a function of particular
combinations of OS, NIC, and switch (I hit one involving OpenVMS/Alpha
regarding full-duplex). I would imagine that NICs and switches of current
vintage have probably settled out significantly by now.
- Jeff
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dunlap, Randy [mailto:">randy.dunlap@intel.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2000 5:19 PM
> To: '">marek@spiderentertainment.com'; ">ale@ale.org
> Subject: RE: [ale] Network card speed switch.
>
>
> Sounds odd to me. If your hub is anywhere near
> recent (modern), it should support auto-negotiation.
> Only the very earliest 100 Mbps Ethernet hubs
> didn't support it AFAIK.
>
> Network driver usage/parameters are described at
> http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/eepro100.html
> and
> http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/misc/modules.html.
>
> Looks like it would be (for modules)
> insmod eepro100.o options=0x20
> or (for in-kernel)
> ether=0,0,0x20,eth0
>
> HTH.
> ~Randy
> #include
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>
> > From: ">marek@spiderentertainment.com
> >
> > Question: I have a 100MB network card (IntelEtherPro 10/100) that is
> > connected to 100MB hub, now when I do ifconfig it says Link encap:
> > 10Mbps. How can I change it so it is 100Mbps ?
> >
> > Redhat 6.1 SMP
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