From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 22 16:52:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sand2.sentex.ca (sand2.sentex.ca [209.167.248.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E2CA14D87 for ; Wed, 22 Sep 1999 16:52:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from gravel (ospf-mdt.sentex.net [205.211.164.81]) by sand2.sentex.ca (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA17108; Wed, 22 Sep 1999 19:52:29 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <4.1.19990922200226.05f32100@granite.sentex.ca> X-Sender: mdtancsa@granite.sentex.ca X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 20:06:16 -0400 To: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: how to set fxp0 to half-duplex? [was: nfs tuning] Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <3.0.5.32.19990922161313.01e84c80@staff.sentex.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> I never trust auto-sensing. Tell both ends what they are configured for. > >Good advice, but when problems occur, try turning off auto-sensing. We've >got a 10/100Mbit switch in the office that if you hook up a computer >that doesn't auto-sense but forces 100Mbit, either full or half duplex, >the throughput drops into the 10-50KB/sec range. > >Of course, in this case, the advice can't be exactly followed, because the >switch can only auto-sense, it can't be configured. Yuk. What kind of switch is that ? i.e. where you are not allowed to configure it to various connection modes ? So far, I have had great luck with Catalyst and HP switches with the fxps. They are of course fully configurable and managed and work well in Half and Full Duplex modes at 10 and 100. ---Mike ********************************************************************** Mike Tancsa, Network Admin * mike@sentex.net Sentex Communications Corp, * http://www.sentex.net/mike Cambridge, Ontario * 01.519.651.3400 Canada * To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message