Subject: Re: Netgear gigabit GA621 fibre interface problems
To: Nathan J. Williams <nathanw@wasabisystems.com>
From: Michael Graff <explorer@flame.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/10/2002 10:07:54
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"Nathan J. Williams" <nathanw@wasabisystems.com> writes:

> I was about to write the same thing, although it seems slightly
> kludgy; isn't fiber full-duplex by definition?

If you get right down to it, so is copper.  There is a transmit pair
and a receive pair.  It's the capabilities on each end that matter.  I
just know that from my 10baseT and 100baseT experience it's best to
hard-code both ends of permanent links, and if you hard-code one, you
MUST hard code the other.

I don't know what the hell the designers of the autonegotiation
protocol were on when they designed it...

- --Michael
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