On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 02:56:19PM -0400, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote:
> I'm sorry, but autonegotiation is a myth. In the real world it is
> more dangerous than it does good. I ran a managed server hosting
> company for 9 years, and every item in there was all hardcoded
> with speed and duplex.
[...]
Funny, but I've worked in that industry for roughly the same amount
of time, and my experience is the exact opposite. When you can't
control what hardware your customers will be plugging in,
hard-setting speed/duplex/cross and other parameters can cause
serious issues, especially if the customer is using cheap commodity
devices which only support autonegotiation (or employs people who
don't know the difference). Our policy has always been to stick to
autonegotiation except when problems arise, and even then most of
the time it's a bad cable or flaky interface causing trouble.
Based on past interactions with customers and other providers, I get
the impression this is one of those vi/emacs-grade religious
arguments where everyone is roughly split down the middle, and
nobody who has an opinion is going to be easily swayed in the other
direction.
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