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 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FnrTf-0001pR-Fp for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 07 Jun 2006 06:25:15 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k576NmeL007126; Wed, 7 Jun 2006 06:23:48 GMT Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.229]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k576JNXb026756 for ; Wed, 7 Jun 2006 06:19:24 GMT Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i11so365890wra for ; Tue, 06 Jun 2006 23:19:23 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=eEq8Hfa5y/JE/2KuYgzFnXVF4Er0VfttG+JwQIyjBnowgv+wCzX0z2aG4F2KwjRLqwW6toXJXVhoStqtqSzI9feYSa+mq9cj8bjDyL9lOyo12hf9iso3WDz9sHz/EaQJe1gshBpzHpP+VqkWIOMJcWhJXbI0N8LIATOfdwT/MHA= Received: by 10.65.152.9 with SMTP id e9mr123100qbo; Tue, 06 Jun 2006 23:19:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.65.53.10 with HTTP; Tue, 6 Jun 2006 23:19:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4bf052bf0606062319i33b48923q70639acf85f2780a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 08:19:22 +0200 From: "Ghaith Hachem" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ethernet link speed In-Reply-To: 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 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_71731_10087895.1149661162493" References: <4bf052bf0606051214q1ab0bdbbqd136666d08344122@mail.gmail.com> <4bf052bf0606052001v7783f003y7acd1284f8a8b777@mail.gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: d549f72b-2838-4515-9c0a-1cd554a8399f X-Archives-Hash: b82de3f396f8c1751f8a10dd3594507a ------=_Part_71731_10087895.1149661162493 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline thank you for your reply, i will try that setup when i get home, but for now the network seems functioning on 100mbps though sometimes it disconnects unexpectedly however it has been stable for 2 days,anyway i was trying to force that setting as instructed from the ISP, though i never had to do that before, so i guess if i'm still going to face problem with the 100 mbps i'll have to force it. On 6/6/06, Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote: > > On 6/6/06, Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote: > > Ghaith, > > > > I think that you shouldn't do this this way, but so be it. It's > > generally spekaing to 'force' a specific setting. In most cards and > > switches this disables all negotiation, and can lead to all sorts of > > strange problems. Especially regard duplex issues. > > Wow, a little latency when typing goes a long way. Please let me clarify > that. > > Generally speaking it's a bad thing to force a specific setting on > hubs, switches, and NICs. In most cases this can lead to all sorts of > strange problems. Especially regard duplex issues. > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- Ghaith Hachem TristMoon Staff TristMoon.com ------=_Part_71731_10087895.1149661162493 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline thank you for your reply,
i will try that setup when i get home, but for now the network seems functioning on 100mbps though sometimes it disconnects unexpectedly however it has been stable for 2 days,anyway i was trying to force that setting as instructed from the ISP, though i never had to do that before, so i guess if i'm still going to face problem with the 100 mbps i'll have to force it.

On 6/6/06, Joshua Schmidlkofer <joshland@gmail.com> wrote:
On 6/6/06, Joshua Schmidlkofer <joshland@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ghaith,
>
>   I think that you shouldn't do this this way, but so be it.  It's
> generally spekaing to 'force' a specific setting.  In most cards and
> switches this disables all negotiation, and can lead to all sorts of
> strange problems.  Especially regard duplex issues.

Wow, a little latency when typing goes a long way.  Please let me clarify that.

Generally speaking it's a bad thing to force a specific setting on
hubs, switches, and NICs.  In most cases this can lead to all sorts of
strange problems.  Especially regard duplex issues.
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