Subject: Re: Broadcom 5709 take long time to bring up

From: Rick Jones <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 14:25:57 -0700

Mitchell Erblich wrote:
> On Aug 18, 2010, at 9:08 AM, Benjamin Li wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hi Joe,
>>
>>Just a couple of quick questions:
>>
>>1.  It is possible that autonegotiation could take in the orders of
>>seconds depending on the remote partner.   
> 
> 
> No. It happens in ms.
> 
> Mitchell Erblich

Both may be correct, depending on the context.  The IEEE specs likely mandate 
that autonegotiation take no longer than N ms, but there may indeed be kit out 
there that takes rather longer...

rick jones