I said servers.  Workstations could just auto-negotiate or reboot if needed.

I have seen problems and I have seen problems on equipment as late as
two years ago.  Cisco switches, HP servers.

On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 10:41 AM, Phil Brutsche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I work with a lot of 10-year-old PIII PCs and I NEVER have a problem
> with autonegotiation.
>
> These days the only time I have a problem with ethernet speed and duplex
> is when some dufus who doesn't understand n-way autonegotiation
> hardcodes one side but not the other.
>
> Russ wrote:
>> Anything made in the past 5 years works great with autonegotiate. You
>> just need to make sure neither side is hard set - that's the only time
>> I see issues.  On older equipment, I've found it works best if they
>> are both hard set to the same thing. But nowadays, we just set
>> everything to auto and it works flawlessly.
>
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> Phil Brutsche
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