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Can’t Force Full- or Half-Duplex on a Gigabit Switch…
Posted Network and Internet Configuration, SAN & NAS Storage on Wednesday, March 1st, 2006.
Posted Network and Internet Configuration, SAN & NAS Storage on Wednesday, March 1st, 2006.
Mr. Dell Support Tech.,
It’s not possible to manually force full-duplex or half-duplex settings on ANY gigabit ports from ANY manufacturer.
Yes, those same ports can still be forced to 10Mbit or 100Mbit full-/half-duplex, only 1000Mbit speed doesn’t support it. No, Dell switches have not been “revised” since your training - they never supported this. Please tell whomever is writing your troubleshooting documentation to revise it; it’s just not correct.
-Mr. Tweak
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Dear Mr. Tweak,
“Training”? What do you mean, “training”?
-Mr. Dell Support Tech
I’m not sure most days, but it sure doesn’t seem to have anything to do with hardware, and since the software problems always seem to be a Microsoft or 3rd-party product that you don’t support - I’m not really sure why Dell has tech support.
(Thanks for provoking me Charley - I’ll probably regret opening my mouth about this one some day.)