On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 07:24:44PM +0200, Tom Ivar Helbekkmo wrote:
> Sounds reasonable.  It might just be the fact that the cabling to my
> office is of insufficient quality for gigabit, of course.  It's CAT5,
> and about 100 feet long.

That could indeed be a problem. Do you have a spare switch (100MBit/Sec
or better 1GBit/Sec) you could connect to that part to see how well
that copes with the cable?

> > How long does the auto negotiation take with other operating system,
> > other network cards and other switches?
> I'll try to do some comparative testing.  I do know that the laptop in
> question, running the same software (NetBSD), auto-negotiates just
> fine with two 10/100 switches I've had occasion to use it through.

Testing GbE would still be worthwhile. Could you perhaps directly
connect your laptop to that switch over a short cable to see if
auto negotiation works faster?

	Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://scheler.de/~matthias/