I am still wondering - WHY? Our cable guys were always handing over ethernet tails from their SDH with speed nonegotiate, claiming their equipment just doesn't support it (and it was Alcatel - where NOTHING is certain). I've heard that it's actually true. Can anyone confirm?
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Gert Doering <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 09:54:54AM +0100, Peter Rathlev wrote: > > So it seems 1000BASE-T cannot work without MASTER/SLAVE selection which > > is one part of auto-negotiation. On the other hand 1000BASE-X can work > > without auto-negotiation (AFAICT) but if Cisco uses this or not I don't > > know. > > That's the "speed nonegotiate" bit. Which nicely breaks links if one side > is set to negotiation on and the other to off. Like, with Carriers > providing > GigE links on fiber with autoneg turned off... > > gert > > -- > USENET is *not* the non-clickable part of WWW! > // > www.muc.de/~gert/ > Gert Doering - Munich, Germany > [email protected] > fax: +49-89-35655025 > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
