[clue-tech] making ethernet autonegotiation not work

[Warren Turkal]

On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 03:20:12PM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote:
> On 4/26/07, Jim Ockers <ockers at ockers.net> wrote:
> 
> >Right, I should have mentioned that we have some very specific
> >environmental requirements and the "industrial" ethernet equipment
> >that meets the temperature/power/static/corrosion/hazardous location
> >requirements is expensive.  We can't use normal consumer grade gear.
> 
> And the unmanaged $50 switch gives you all of the above?

Okay. So drop the 100MBps device and replace it with a ~$50 10BaseT
device. At [1], you'll find a 10BaseT Hub that conforms to the 802.3
inducstrial standard. Does that meet your needs? If the hubs won't
support 100MBps, it shouldn't be able to negotiate the higher speed.

[1]http://www.altex.com/product_info.php?products_id=454

wt
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