From: Khurram Noor (engr.khurramnoor@googlemail.com)
Date: Sun Mar 15 2009 - 16:26:42 ART
so what you mean to say is that in the lab i cannot hardcode duplex and
speed or either router or switch because this will cause loss of points?
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 10:16 PM, Huan Pham <pnhuan@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>
> iTouched from iPhone ;)
>
> 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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