Auto-Negotiation Mode

The procedure that follows describes how to select at least one of the five local transceiver capabilities and set the mode to auto-negotiation.

To Set the Mode to Auto-Negotiation

1. Select at least one of the five capabilities (adv_100T4_cap, adv_100fdx_cap, adv_100hdx_cap, adv_10fdx_cap, adv_10hdx_cap) that you want to advertise to the remote system, and set its value to 1.

2. Set the local transceiver capabilities advertised by the hardware to 1, the auto-negotiation setting: adv_autoneg_cap 1

   Use the ndd utility as described in "Using the ndd Utility in Interactive Mode" in this chapter.