On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Garrett D'Amore wrote:

> The AMT firmware is supposed to figure this out. I think the NIC drops 
> down to 100Mbps mode.

So dont lock the switch port to 1Gb/s.

> No, AMT is precisely designed the way it is to deal with this case. If you 
> crash your operating system, within a second or two (or thereabouts) AMT 
> figures out that the host is out to lunch, and the ME takes over.

Ok, that's reassuring.

regards,
-- 
Paul Jakma,
Solaris Networking                       Sun Microsystems, Scotland
http://opensolaris.org/os/project/quagga tel: EMEA x73150 / +44 15066 73150

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