Auto-negotiation

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See Auto-negotiation for a general discussion on network negotiations.

On HP-UX, you can check the link by issuing the following commands:

   $ lanscan
   Hardware Station        Crd Hdw   Net-Interface  NM  MAC       HP-DLPI DLPI
   Path     Address        In# State NamePPA        ID  Type      Support Mjr#
   0/0/0/0  0x00306E09612B 0   UP    lan0 snap0     1   ETHER     Yes     119
   
   $ lanadmin -x 0
   Current Speed                   = 100 Full-Duplex Auto-Negotiation-ON
   

If the auto-negotiation failed, you can manually set the NIC by issuing the following commands:

   $ lanadmin -X 100FD 0
   
   WARNING: an incorrect setting could cause serious network problems!!!
   
   Driver is attempting to set the new speed
   Reset will take approximately 11 seconds