From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EVnKa-0006B3-1C for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 29 Oct 2005 09:48:56 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j9T9m2df026503; Sat, 29 Oct 2005 09:48:02 GMT Received: from ballbreaker.travellingkiwi.com (damned.travellingkiwi.com [81.6.239.220]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j9T9hmlE027295 for ; Sat, 29 Oct 2005 09:43:49 GMT Received: from [127.0.0.1] (ballbreaker [127.0.0.1]) by ballbreaker.travellingkiwi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A432D1338E for ; Sat, 29 Oct 2005 10:43:45 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <43634451.2020402@travellingkiwi.com> Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 10:43:45 +0100 From: Hamish Marson User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051017) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] mii-tool on Dell 2850 with 10/100/1000 ports References: <435E6C70.8090603@badapple.net> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.91.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 6ac4100e-54f9-495b-8a9c-a1bd9600338c X-Archives-Hash: 29a03de0e93826efa1718a3c67a6dd22 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote: > Frank, > > You are not supposed to statically configure hubs and switches. I > don't know what the Sorry, I disagree. You are supposed to configure switches & hubs for static and NOT auto. Auto detect is a broken protocol. If you can even be that charitable. AFAIK it's not even a proper standard. If you don't configure statically you get mismatches and then collisions... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDY0RR/3QXwQQkZYwRAv78AJ9JtCIbsVsb62XmkxU85jRtww66XwCg2Mcs 2HjZetQV3b7wcqkdG0N1f2c= =FmDB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list