Re: Nailing down Ethernet Speed/Duplex in the lab?

From: Hansang Bae (hbae@xxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Thu Aug 29 2002 - 23:49:59 GMT-3


   
At 09:32 AM 8/29/2002 +0100, Omer Ansari wrote:
>Paul, as far as good practice (and what TAC suggests) goes,
>either hard code speed/duplex on lab on both sides, or let it
>auto-negotiate on both sides.
>however, my practice is dont bother to do this until
>. explicitly asked in the test or
>. you are getting the cdp duplex mismatch errors on the console
>remember, theres a ton of other nice things they want u to do which
>actually carry hard points.

Until one breaks and stops your BGP/IGP from working properly.

Come on guys... it takes 2 seconds to type "half tab enter" on a router. If yo
u don't take a chance with your data center routers, why take a chance on a $12
50 test?

hsb



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