Re: Force 100 Full Duplex (V210)

rahan <rahan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thank You Thiemo.

I need to force 100 full because by using cisco switches with
auto-negociation parameter, it generate errors packet!! when i force
100 Full, i dont have any errors...

So, i olso force 100 Full on the switche.

Problem collision with half duplex...

What sort of collision? "Normal" collisions in half-duplex are, well,
normal :)

Auto Neg is practical to use only with old network card which no
talk on mode 100 Full...

I tend to disagree. I've had quite a lot of success with autoneg.

So, by forcing 100 Full, it's reduce errors et make network more
fast.

I may have misinterpreted between the lines above, but just in case,
this might be useful information:

How 100Base-T Autoneg is supposed to work:

When both sides of the link are set to autoneg, they will "negotiate"
the duplex setting and select full-duplex if both sides can do
full-duplex.

If one side is hardcoded and not using autoneg, the autoneg process
will "fail" and the side trying to autoneg is required by spec to use
half-duplex mode.

If one side is using half-duplex, and the other is using full-duplex,
sorrow and woe is the usual result.

So, the following table shows what will happen given various settings
on each side:

Auto Half Full

Auto Happiness Lucky Sorrow

Half Lucky Happiness Sorrow

Full Sorrow Sorrow Happiness

Happiness means that there is a good shot of everything going well.
Lucky means that things will likely go well, but not because you did
anything correctly :) Sorrow means that there _will_ be a duplex
mis-match.

When there is a duplex mismatch, on the side running half-duplex you
will see various errors and probably a number of _LATE_ collisions
("normal" collisions don't count here). On the side running
full-duplex you will see things like FCS errors. Note that those
errors are not necessarily conclusive, they are simply indicators.

Further, it is important to keep in mind that a "clean" ping (or the
like - eg "linkloop" or default netperf TCP_RR) test result is
inconclusive here - a duplex mismatch causes lost traffic _only_ when
both sides of the link try to speak at the same time. A typical ping
test, being synchronous, one at a time request/response, never tries
to have both sides talking at the same time.

Finally, when/if you migrate to 1000Base-T, everything has to be set
to auto-neg anyway.

rick jones
--
The glass is neither half-empty nor half-full. The glass has a leak.
The real question is "Can it be patched?"
these opinions are mine, all mine; HP might not want them anyway... :)
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