A company utilizes a patching server to regularly update their PC’s. After the latest round of patching all of the older PCs with non-gigabit Ethernet cards become
disconnected from the network and now require a technician to fix the issue locally at each PC. Which of the following should be done to prevent this issue in the
future?
A.
Enable automatic rebooting of the pCs after patching is completed
B.
Require the patching server to update the oldest PCs off hours
C.
Disable automatic driver updates to PCs on the patching server
D.
Throttle the connection speed of the patching server to match older PCs
how does this make sense? Wouldn’t it just be a bottleneck situation? How would it result in disconnection???
What this is talking about is that then the patch happened the older PC’s lost connection because the connection speeds did not match. So the Tech will then need to go to the switch to lower the connection speed to the PC’s. This question reflects auto negotiation. A lot of the times older PC’s don’t have the capability to auto negotiate, hence why they could not connect.
So to prevent this from happening the Server/Router will need to be set to the lower speed (throttled).