Paul Jakma wrote: > 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.
That's right. And I *think* the rationale for this is that the ME is *even* running when your system is mostly powered down. Think "hibernate" or "sleep". AMT allows an administrator to wake the system up remotely so that it can be patched, whatever. (Sort of like Wake-on-LAN, but different.) The idea is that 100Mbps requires far, far less power to keep alive and running than 1Gbps. So the ME only supports 100Mbps. -- Garrett
