25 May
2008
25 May
'08
6:25 p.m.
On Sun, 2008-05-25 at 15:32 +0100, mbm wrote:
A duplex mismatch would only manifest itself at high transmission rates (which can make it difficult to diagnose). The sort of traffic I am generating in a simple ping test should not cause any difficulty and I should not get the ICMP "host unreachable" response. (And forcing 100/full would defeat the purpose of autonegotiation and might actually cause later problems when a device tries to autonegotiate with the fixed device).
Not always true, I have had auto-negotiation problems cause all manner of issues regardless of volume of traffic. inc devices randomly disconnecting, intermittent routing of packets..frame corruption etc etc. That said these problems are far rarer than they used to be.