On 19/10/11 13:30, Mohacsi Janos wrote:

Correct. Their current generation of line-cards does not support
10/100/1000 copper SFP auto-negotiation. It is rather painful sometimes:
dumb non-configurable auto-nego switch on the other side sometimes
configured to 100 Mbps half-duplex after restart. Then complain from the
users because of the packet drops... ..

Funnily enough that is exactly what was happening.

I've got to know - surely there must be a good reason?

According to Cisco - they selected a cheaper chip - without
auto-negotiation.

Haha!
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