If you’ve read my original post on Gigabit Autonegotiation, you already know how I feel. Today, this hit me smack dab in the face. We were on a conference call with EMC. We are about to install a very expensive EMC NAS and were going over all the settings and details.
Right there on the worksheet, [...]

Repeat after me. I will not force a switch to 1000/Full, even if some idiot insists that I should.
Now we have that out of the way, let me give you a little background. I’ve had two instances where a “network” admin/engineer argued with me about hard coding Gigabit settings on a switch and server to [...]