Logwatch message

[Mike McGrath]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com 
> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Neal Wilkinson
> Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2005 10:40 AM
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases; jvian10 at charter.net
> Subject: Re: Logwatch message
> 
> On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 10:24 -0500, Jeff Vian wrote: 
> > What do you mean "doesn't support it"?  AFAIK all modern 
> NICs support 
> > full duplex, and my Linksys certainly does.
> > 
> > The message means exactly what it says. The NIC successfully 
> > negotiated a full duplex connection to the switch.
> 
> Maybe I'm thinking of something else. It seems like when I 
> was looking at sniffers there was something about it that my 
> card didn't support and I must have gotten it confused with 
> full duplex. Why is the nic connecting to the switch worthy 
> of report? I have just a regular old DSL account it should 
> always be connected unless the isp has an issue. 
> 
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When your card auto-negotiates with the switch a lot of settings are
determined.  Among them is whether your card will communicate full
duplex (send and receive at the same time) or half duplex (can send or
receive but not both at the same time).  It's logged because half-duplex
in a networked environment is usually bad because it is prone to
collisions, which, on a network with high utilization, is very very bad.

	-Mike