Ethernet auto-negotiation v full-duplex

An interesting page mentioned by Rob Middleton on the MacEnterprise mailing list indicates that if you turn on auto-sensing on only one side of an ethernet link, the appropriate behaviour is for the auto-sensing side to drop the connection to half-duplex. So for full duplex you either need to manually configure both ends, or have auto-sensing turned on at both ends of the link.

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