Juniper e3k with ports limitied to 100Mbit and re NICs on MSI MoBo: problems with duplex negotiation (Hetzner host provider discard FreeBSD support due this bug)

[Pyun YongHyeon]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 12:31:10AM +0300, Lev Serebryakov wrote:
> Hello, Pyun.
> You wrote 11 января 2011 г., 23:00:07:
> 
> > rgephy(4) currently always use auto-negotiation to work-around link
> > establishment issues reported in past.
>   I think, it is the root of the problem. Autonegotiation is DISABLED on
> these ports. I think, some additional mediaopt (like
> force-half-duplex) for rgephy(4) will be solution.
> 
> > For your case, the only way to address the issue at this moment is
> > to use auto-negotiation but that would establish 1000baseT link
> > which would add cost for you. Alternatively request half-duplex
> > configuration to the provider to get a agreed link duplex.
>    Maybe, adding new mediaopt is not very hard? Or is it?
> 

That had been supported for long time. Just remove full-duplex
media option in your manual configuration.