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13 years ago

Ethernet autonegotiation

I am just wondering what kind of procedures are running during the link establishment in 100Base-T ethernet in case auto negotiation is disabled (i.e. forced mode) at both ends of the ethernet con...
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13 years ago

But, I think "parallel detection" is only used when one end node supports aneg. What I am wondering what happens when both end nodes disable aneg. In this case, do both nodes send idle messages? If yes, how one node react when it receives an idle message from the link partner?

Thanks,