You may have your own reasons why you want to limit your switch to use only 10BASE-T.
The reason why I prefer 10BASE-T is the wiring in the house I live.
These telephone cables have no twisted pairs, they are more than 20m long and replacing them is not an option.
100BASE-TX may work on these cables, but I want to be on the safe side using 10 MHz instead of 100 MHz.
I own a D-Link DIR-300 and I will show you step by step what I have done to disable 100BASE-TX on the 4 ports of the switch.
I am using the method to disable Auto-Negotiation Advertisement.
1. Determine the chip used for the switch.
# swconfig dev eth0 show
Global attributes:
enable_vlan: 1
name: IP175C
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.The DIR-300 has the IP175C.
2. Find and read the datasheet of your chip.
http://www.icplus.com.tw/pp-ip175c.html
http://www.icplus.com.tw/Data/Datasheet … 081121.pdf
On page 63 the "Auto-Negotiation Advertisement register" is explained.
It is "MII register 4 of PHY0-4".
Bit 7 controls "100BASE-TX" Advertisement on/off (1/0).
Bit 8 controls "100BASE-TX full duplex" Advertisement on/off (1/0).
3. Read and write register 4 of port 0.
# swconfig dev eth0 set phy 0
# swconfig dev eth0 set reg 4
# swconfig dev eth0 get val
1505http://calc.50x.eu/?size=2&dec=1505
If you clear bit 7 and 8 you will get 1121.
# swconfig dev eth0 set val 1121When you now plug in a cable on port 0 you should get a connection limited to 10BASE-T only.
You can check this on your PC with "ethtool".
4. Restart Auto-Negotiation
There is no need to unplug your cables everytime you change the Auto-Negotiation Advertisement.
On page 59 of the datasheet the "Restart Auto-Negotiation" bit is listed.
It is "MII register 0 of PHY0-4" bit 9.
This is similar to step 3.
5. Automate
For automation you may need a one-liner to set and clear the bits.
http://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/b … tBranching
Here is the initscript I use: http://pastebin.com/ShP1vtQK
I want to thank all developers of OpenWrt!