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standard for auto-negotiation
Who defines the standard for auto-negotiation? Is there any specific standard saying that NIC cards should work like this? Please help me in this. Regards, F Joe gladston
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Need info about LACP handshake
Hi, I am looking for the info. about LACP handshaking in 802.3ad. Where can I get it? Where can I get the info about PDUs ? Thanks
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Auto-Neogotiation
I'm trying to find out any tools that can help me see the auto- neogotiation frames (pages) that are generated on the link. Are there any tools PC Based? I'm trying for GbEthernet and 10GbEthernet....
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Misconfigured Clients
Hello, A while back I had heard a technology and wanted to ask you guys. In a hotel we would like to give internet access to the clients. We have 8 switches connected to each other. What do I need to...
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what is a dumb switch????
hi.... what are dumb switches????? what are they used for??
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please explain udld in detail
hi..... can somebody explain what udld is ? i went through cisco's explanation.....but could'nt follow.... thankyou
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Allied Telesyn switch VLANS
Hello All, I have a network of 1 8000S, 8 8024gb and 1 windows server. There are 2 blocks where switches connectected to each other and the switch at the end of the block is connected to the 8000S as...
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T568A or T568B
Some information sources indicate there is no difference between T568A and T568B wiring besides what color is used at which pin position. This implies that as long as association between pins is...
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How to find out which ports are closed
i've only know how to check if ports are open from the internet side, but how can i check if the ports are open from the lan side? I want to find out which ports are opened on a hotspot wlan arrea....
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IPERF question
If I use IPERF to send a large test data file from my laptop to my desktop computer to measure throughput, what happens to the data once the transmission is complete? Do I have to manually delete the...
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Netgear and Cisco Trunk
Hi, I have a Cisco 3750 with layer 3 switching for the VLANs working fine. I have added a Netgear smartswitch GS748T. I have created the VLANS on the Netgear switch; now I want to set up a trunk...
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very low cost ethernet hub with monitor port?
I want to use an ethernet hub, and be able to "snoop" the traffic on one of its ports. This used to be trivial before all hubs were really switches. Its really amazing how cheap a desktop mulitport...
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link active or loss monitoring of phy
Dear group members. I had a problem to use ethernet phy. I need to monitor link loss according to fault of cabling and link active according to reconnecting cable. But no detail information is found...
 
Gigabit copper fallback to FastEthernet operation
Greetings! I'm looking for information about the mechanism by which copper Gigabit transceivers fall back to 100Mb/s operation when: a) they're linking to a 100Base TX transceiver b) they're linking...
 
multiple MACs on a port
is it allowed by ethernet-standards that a switch has multiple (actually two) MACs on the same port? the port is part of a VLAN with a L3-Interface i.e. an IP-Address assigned. I am seeing the...
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