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I have looked into this a bit more and the only reason I can see that this is done is so you can easily move the config of the interface to another interface.
Perfect, that's the answer I needed, thanks.
To be honest the issues I had with auto negotiations was 100Mbps connections, thinking back it was always 1841 and 3560s that I had this with as well.
This backs up what you said...
So when connecting a switch to a router you guys never set the speed and duplex on both sides?
Many many times I have walked into "our internet is slow" or "we have strange issues with failed downloads" it's always been due to the router and switch having a speed and or duplex mismatch when set...
Cisco question
I was setting up a 2960s 10G for iSCSI and was told that Cisco do not recommend setting the speed and duplex on each end of anything above 1Gbps. In the past anything like servers, switch to switch, switch to router I have always manually set speed and duplex to stop mismatch...