Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 06:48:51 -0800 From: Joshua Lokken <joshua@twobirds.us> To: David.Bauer@SCHERING.DE Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fxp autoselect problem Message-ID: <20040306144851.GC55765@voyager.swabbies.org> In-Reply-To: <OF89EE5558.7D8A7BA5-ONC1256E4E.0054525C@schering.de> References: <OF89EE5558.7D8A7BA5-ONC1256E4E.0054525C@schering.de>
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* David.Bauer@SCHERING.DE <David.Bauer@SCHERING.DE> [2004-03-06 03:00]:
> Hello,
>
> I have a problem with the fxp driver in FreeBSD4.9 RELEASE.
> The switch is 100Mbit full duplex but it seems the handshake with my
> network card does not work correctly.
>
> fxp0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX)
> status: active
>
> The network throughput is very slow ( 8kbit/sec).
>
> Is there a way to force the driver to 100 Mbit full duplex and disable the
> autoselect ?
See the fxp(4) man page for additional ifconfig options
you can pass to the driver... eg.
(in /etc/rc.conf)
ifconfig_fxp0="inet 10.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 \
media 100BaseTX mediaopts full-duplex"
--
Joshua
"What terrible way to die."
"There are no good ways."
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