• Zagorath@aussie.zone
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    8 hours ago

    Wait so what would happen if it was only 1000? Like, can’t any connection automatically support up to its limit? What’s the advantage of explicitly supporting lower numbers?

    • BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org
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      5 hours ago

      Support for older/slower connections does get dropped sometimes. I’ve seen devices that are 100/1000 only, and I had a fiber->ethernet box that only supported 1G/10G one one port, and 10/100/1000 on the other.