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Strangely it wasn't, but one of the devices was an experimental bit of hardware which simply did autonegotiation wrong.

We found this out with an oscilloscope.



I had to solve this one with a small hub or switch between the Sun and Cisco boxes, so it sounded very familiar. Possibly 10 vs 100 was harder than we thought.




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