On 2026/10/16 14:49, Henning Brauer wrote: > * void <[email protected]> [2026-10-16 13:46]: > > A suggestion: have you tried 'nailing up' the speeds on either side? > > Instead of auto-negotiation. If you can't set both, then at least set the > > openbsd side. (by that I mean set the speed and duplex explicitly) > > then test again. > > that is like the worst advice possible. > > this comes from a distant past, where some vendors (hello cisco) had > royally screwed up autoneg implementations. that's like 3 decades ago > tho and just history now.
to be fair, the cisco bug responsible for most of this "advice" wouldn't have been much of a problem without the matching OS driver bug (I think it was dcphy claiming to support 100baseT4 when it didn't) alongside...
