Configuring Auto Negotiation

Autonegotiation is a signalling mechanism by with two devices connected over Ethernet can choose common transmission parameters such as speed, duplex, mode and flow control.

In this process, the connected device first share their capabilities regarding these parameters and then choose the highest performance mnode the both support.

Reference

Command

[no] autoneg disable

Description

Enable/disable auto negotiation

Parameters

None

Mode

INTERFACE

Example

pbnoscli# configure terminal 
pbnoscli(config)# interface ethernet Ethernet1/1
pbnoscli(config-if)# autoneg 
  disable               Disable Auto-Negotiation
pbnoscli(config-if)# autoneg disable
pbnoscli(config-if)#  

//to enable again
pbnoscli(config-if)# no autoneg disable 
pbnoscli(config-if)# 

You can verify the configuration by using the command(s) below:

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