https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=262316
J.R. Oldroyd <f...@opal.com> changed:
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Resolution|Not A Bug |---
Status|Closed |Open
--- Comment #2 from J.R. Oldroyd <f...@opal.com> ---
Stefan, I believe you are mis-reading the standard.
You are quoting what the standard says to do in the event of autonegotiation
failure. In that event, setting half-duplex is indeed the required behavior.
However, citing from the same article that you cited, "The Ethernet standards
and major Ethernet equipment manufacturers recommend enabling autonegotiation."
If both ends of a link are not under common administrative control, it may not
be possible to set both ends to matching modes. Clearly, having a device
inform the other end what its configured capabilities are is preferable to
having a non-working link.
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