On 01/26/2011 07:56 AM, Olin Lathrop wrote:
> Jesse Lackey wrote:
>> While I agree with all this in theory, in practice I don't want my
>> product to be the first and only thing that tests/requires the
>> customer's 10/100 switch to work flawlessly at 10mbits for the port(s)
>> it is plugged into.
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> That's silly.  Have you *ever* seen a 10/100 switch that didn't work at 1=
0?
> I've made a number of 10Mbit/s devices and never once had this problem.

Yes, and for a number of reasons that were not immediately obvious. I've
seen the same vendors equipment not sync up correctly and we've had to
go through various gyrations to get it work. In the end it is just simpler
to hard code the setting and not deal with the auto-negotiation.

> I don't want my small systems burdened with extra cost only because of
> someone else's superstition.


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