Setting the switch speed to 100 turns off my management ports

[haydenhicks97]

When i go into the switches and set the speed to 100, they shut down, but once i do auto they come back up

[Leo Laohoo]

Hard-coding the speed/duplex turns off MDI/MDI-X.  This means that the cable used is incorrect. 

[haydenhicks97]

I cant change the cables due to its on a school software, what would u recommend doing, leaving it set as auto?

[Leo Laohoo]

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@haydenhicks97 wrote:

leaving it set as auto?

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It is recommended to leave speed and duplex to auto negotiate. 

There are some extreme cases where speed &/or duplex settings have to be hard coded. 

There are, however, some network administrators out there who still insist on configuring the speed &/or duplex settings.