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RE: OOB core router connectivity wish list


From: Jamie Bowden <jamie () photon com>
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 12:49:53 +0000

From: Mikael Abrahamsson [mailto:swmike () swm pp se]
On Sat, 12 Jan 2013, Matthew Petach wrote:

Thank goodness ethernet never has problems with negotiation going
awry,
and coming up with mismatched duplexes, and vendors never had to
implement "no negotiation-auto" in their configs because you couldn't
count on everyone's implementations working together just absolutely
perfectly the first time on bootup.  Yes, it sure is a good thing
ethernet never has issues like that which would cripple your ability
to
get a box up and running at 2am.

Has this happened to you with equipment designed and manufactured the
past
5 years?

This happened to me just last month.

Jamie


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