[Soekris] Ethernet outages/autodetect weirdness on Net4801

[Joel Jaeggli]

Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote:
>> That sounds like autonegotiation is failing. It could be the other  
>> device that's having problems, or just the combination of the two.
>>
> Hi,
> 
> 	I'm sorry, but autonegotiation is a myth. In the real world
> it is more dangerous than it does good. I ran a managed server hosting
> company for 9 years, and every item in there was all hardcoded with speed
> and duplex. Even Cisco said between routers of the same make/model there
> were auto issues.

The 802.3ab specification does not allow for forced configuration 
auto-negotiation disabled configuration of 1000base-t. you will find 
that you need auto-negotiation where you like it or not when gigabit 
ethernet is involved.

> 	My life has been much happier since. :)

Perhaps...

> 		Tuc
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