Is it necessary with current hardware to lock down
auto-negotiation?  Our network engineer is enphatic that
everything has to be locked down at 100FD.  He says that
auto-negotiation will slow down the network with extra traffic.<br>
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However, I can't find anything on the web that says why
auto-negotiation wouldn't work, as long as the standard is adhered to
and the only reason it shouldn't be adhered to is if the equipment is
pre-1997.<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Jeff Rasmussen<br>GPG public key 0x9686C12F