Wither million blither tongues mounting bristling guilt frames.

[reddragdiva]

Anyone who herds lots of Sun kit knows the one where the Sun box and the Cisco router fail to autonegotiate. "After you." "No, after you." "No, I insist." "No, no, no." Hence locking both to 100 Mbit/full duplex (or 1Gbit/full) as the only way to get them to behave.

What I want to know is why this bug hasn't been sorted out in years and still exists in 2005. It's not like it's a rare combination.

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[sweh.livejournal.com]

Which fails to work for network jumpstarting, of course, since the devices don't negotiate well enough to talk to the network to get to the boot server! Grump.