> It's not really debatable.  We implemented "auto-advertisement" in two 
> different projects I worked on, and complaints about duplex mismatches and 
> whatnot effectively disappeared.

I presume you mean that you 'force' the configuration by setting the
ANAR registers to only allow the option you want?

I did that once - in order to stop FDX being negotiated since I had no
way of detecting the result of the negotiation (and it was a pcmcia card).

One slight difficulty is that the ANAR register doesn't (usually) affect
autodetect - so a 10M or 100M (single speed) hub will always connect.
So if you've set the ANAR to 100M FDX, and plug into a 10M hub the link
will come up.....

	David

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David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk