From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 18 5:48:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.cyberghost.org (tl6.cyberia.com [208.13.144.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA4BB14EE2 for ; Sun, 18 Jul 1999 05:48:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tim@cyberghost.org) Received: from cyberghost.org ([192.168.1.2]) by ns1.cyberghost.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA11459; Sun, 18 Jul 1999 08:48:11 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from tim@cyberghost.org) Message-ID: <3791CD1A.C88129F0@cyberghost.org> Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 08:48:26 -0400 From: Tim Walker X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeff Ito Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: de0 duplex... References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jeff, This may or may not be the problem, but some (3 Com comes to mind) switches don't always recognize full duplex cards correctly. If you put a hub between the Nic and the Switch you may be able to trick the Switch into running correctly at full duplex. Tim Walker Jeff Ito wrote: > Hello, > > I am having a problem with my DEC ethernet card. (DC21142 (rev.48)), > using media and mediaopt, I am forcing the card to run at 100baseTX > (full-duplex). The kernel messages, as well as ifconfig indicate that it > thinks it is running at full-duplex. Yet the switch it is plugged into > indicates otherwise. I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions as to > how I can rectify this problem. > It's not the port on the switch, other cards will work at full duplex > on that port. And just to take precation I swapped out the card with > another just like it, and the symptoms are the same. > > Any input would be greatly appreciated. > > Jeff > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message