Gigabit copper fallback to FastEthernet operation

Apr 27, 2007 0 Replies

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 to another gig trasceiver, but don't have all 4 pairs connected



Can anyone point me to an explanation?



...and related to that: Is there a way to see into this mechanism in a Cisco switch?



I'm hoping for something like the Solaris 'lp_XXX_cap' parameters that might tell me about my link partner, and the number of pairs detected.



Thanks!



/chris



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