> Hello!
>
> I have a problem where I'm trying to bootp an Alpha box. It works great
> over a hub, but through a switch it fails miserably.
>
> I tracked it down to a bad autoconfiguration. The switch is
> autonegotiating 100Mb/fdx and the client is autonegotiating 100Mb/hdx.
> Needless to say, this doesn't help with BOOTP requests - things tend to time
> out. Forcing the switch to 100Mb/hdx makes the process work smoothly.
> Forcing the switch to 100Mb/fdx causes more timeouts.
>
> For other reasons, I'd like to force the switch to 100Mb/fdx at all times,
> and just force the BOOTP process to initialize the card at a 100Mb/fdx.
The 'dc' driver will pick up the settings from SRM, so just initialise
the SRM correctly to whatever you want.
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