[geeks] Seems like low-cost Cisco 10/100 switches are available

[Sandwich Maker]

" From: "Alois Hammer" <aloishammer at casearmour.net>
" 
" When I was working in an environment of seven Catalyst 3524/3548
" switches and a 2924, I had a large batch of HP desktops with 3C920
" (3C905C embedded) NICs, all turned out of the factory at the same time. 
" Whether or not they autonegotiated correctly depended on *which switch
" port* they were attached to.  Some switch ports worked, most didn't. 
" When I got there, it was taking anything up to five minutes to get
" domain creds from the local NT4 DCs.  After I forced speed and duplex on
" all the ports in the warehouse -- except for some embedded devices that
" refused to connect *unless* they were allowed to autonegotiate -- login
" time dropped by about 95% for most people.

can you pull the same trick with catalysts that you can with suns?
advertise autoneg but with only 1 speed available.
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