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Reporting the link partner capabilities, Tableb8 read-only link partner capabilities – Sun Microsystems Sun Quad User Manual

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Appendix B

Configuring the Quad FastEthernet Device Driver Parameters

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Reporting the Link Partner Capabilities

TABLE B-8

describes the read-only link partner capabilities.

If the link partner is not capable of auto-negotiation (when

lp_autoneg_cap

is 0)

the information described in

TABLE B-8

is not relevant and the parameter value = 0.

If the link partner is capable of auto-negotiation (when

lp_autoneg_cap

is 1) then

the speed and mode information is displayed when you use auto-negotiation and
get the link partner capabilities.

TABLE B-8

Read-Only Link Partner Capabilities

Parameter

Values

Description

lp_autoneg_cap

0
1

= No auto-negotiation
= Auto-negotiation

lp_100fdx_cap

0
1

= No100Mbit/sec full-duplex transmission
= 100Mbit/sec full-duplex

lp_100hdx_cap

0
1

= No 100Mbit/sec half-duplex transmission
= 100Mbit/sec half-duplex

lp_10fdx_cap

0
1

= No 10Mbit/sec full-duplex transmission
= 10Mbit/sec full-duplex

lp_10hdx_cap

0
1

= No 10Mbit/sec half-duplex transmission
= 10Mbit/sec half-duplex