OK, I need somebody to help me settle an argument... my manager swears up and down that when an ethernet NIC is set to auto-neg, it hurts performance (vs hard-set). He says this is because an auto-neg ...

In this white paper N-TRON discusses the details of Auto-negotiation protocol and how to properly configure Auto-negotiation settings for maximum performance of industrial Ethernet networks. In ...

The ethtool utility on Linux allows you to view and change some of your network-driver and interface-card settings, especially for wired devices. These include their speed, whether the interface uses ...

Has anybody seen issues with workstations auto negotiating speed and duplex recently, or have all those issues been worked out (assuming modern Cisco switches and modern workstations)? My new job has ...