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 1FnftI-0008V5-Vy for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 06 Jun 2006 18:02:57 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k56Hx8PW003962; Tue, 6 Jun 2006 17:59:08 GMT Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com (nz-out-0102.google.com [64.233.162.203]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k56HgaAt006223 for ; Tue, 6 Jun 2006 17:43:00 GMT Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id z3so1270223nzf for ; Tue, 06 Jun 2006 10:42:57 -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:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=U57jsWQk6sovYkqiFwHRkkHgLAb89guNs3Ii1KZ6UrsKCs465aaXvIdPTPIvkfsiFs6LbOvfy9T0deGdZ5RuSMtaaaaCh2FlGoYPxJOn5P/PClXyY3SdE8OPmcG7DNQuMToEiCb70L3zzci0pMhPSdHcrmHfQj90Zpw9UQos68Y= Received: by 10.64.150.17 with SMTP id x17mr4838851qbd; Tue, 06 Jun 2006 10:42:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.64.232.20 with HTTP; Tue, 6 Jun 2006 10:42:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2006 10:42:57 -0700 From: "Joshua Schmidlkofer" 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: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <4bf052bf0606051214q1ab0bdbbqd136666d08344122@mail.gmail.com> <4bf052bf0606052001v7783f003y7acd1284f8a8b777@mail.gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 44dcfce1-f8f0-48ce-ae68-a8e6f70e71b6 X-Archives-Hash: 800c4bdf852a5738d59cb9868e536714 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