Subject: Re: trouble with 10baseT autoselect on wm0
To: Tom Ivar Helbekkmo <tih@eunetnorge.no>
From: Lubomir Sedlacik <salo@Xtrmntr.org>
List: current-users
Date: 04/27/2005 22:09:02
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On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 08:35:10PM +0200, Tom Ivar Helbekkmo wrote:
> I have one of those laptops as well.  I haven't tried it at 10 Mbps,
> but I had to quit letting it autoselect against our Cisco GigE capable
> switch, because it would negotiate 1 Gbps and full duplex -- after
> trying for about two minutes.  Every time something happened to the
> interface, such as me putting it into promiscuous mode with tcpdump,
> there would be another two minute wait for the autoselect.

that's normal CatOS behaviour.  if you want to avoid this expensive
autonegotiation, set the port to "switchport nonegotiate"

  nonegotiate    Device will not engage in negotiation protocol on this
                 interface


regards,

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