What are the technical gotchas when Connecting to devices that have a fixed full-duplex configuration?
The RJ-45 ports are configured as “Auto”. That is, when connecting to attached devices, the switch will operate in one of two ways to determine the link speed and the communication mode (half duplex or full duplex): • If the connected device is also configured to Auto, the switch will automatically negotiate both link speed and communication mode. • If the connected device has a fixed configuration, for example 100 Mbps, at half or full duplex, the switch will automatically sense the link speed, but will default to a communication mode of half duplex. Because the switch behaves in this way (in compliance with the IEEE 802.3 standard), if a device connected to the switch has a fixed configuration at full duplex, the device will not connect correctly to the switch. The result will be high error rates and very inefficient communications between the switch and the device. Make sure that all devices connected to the switch are configured to auto negotiate, or are configured to connect at ha
