From: Huan Pham (pnhuan@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Mar 15 2009 - 14:16:37 ART
Are you asking in the lab context?
Then leave it as auto, unless the question leads you toward having to fix speed & duplex.
Even if auto ends up with a mismatch, you should be fine except some annoying error messages which should not cause you any point loss!
Best practice is a different story. You should always hard-code speed & duplex in practice as auto only work 99% of the time. You dont want to try your luck in production to end up in the 1% worst cases if you are unlucky!
Huan
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On 15/03/2009, at 8:43 PM, Khurram Noor <engr.khurramnoor@googlemail.com> wrote:
Dear all,
can you tell me where to leave duplex and speed settings to auto and where
to statically set them. i get confused with it sometimes. In my
understanding if the router and switch interfaces are same like both are
fast ethernet we can leave it to auto on both end. and if there is a
mismatch i.e. like router has an ethernet interface which is connected
switch fastethernet, then we need to statically set speed and duplex.
Am i wrong?
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