Tag Archives: autonegotiation

iLO 3 Shared Network Port limitation

09/06/2011 – 11:36

It is very common to have port shortage in a datacenter, so a dedicated management port isn’t always a doable solution. There is some good news for iLO users: from version 1.60 onwards, iLO is able to use the system NIC for management purposes. You can set it in the following menu: As you can [...]

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How autonegotiation supposed to work

06/01/2010 – 14:15

Here is a quick guide on how autonegotiation supposed to work: When both sides are set to autonegotiation, they will negotiate the speed and the duplexity and the maximum supported will be the common speed/duplexity. If one side is hardcoded and the autonegotiation is set to off, the autonegotiation process will fail, and the side [...]

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