From owner-freebsd-net Thu Jul 29 12:40:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mail.xmission.com (mail.xmission.com [198.60.22.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB652150E6 for ; Thu, 29 Jul 1999 12:40:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from [204.68.178.224] (helo=softweyr.com) by mail.xmission.com with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 119s1d-0006wI-00; Thu, 29 Jul 1999 09:23:18 -0600 Message-ID: <37A071E3.9E565046@softweyr.com> Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 09:23:15 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bill Vermillion Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: network hangs References: <199907280243.WAA10638@bilver.magicnet.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Bill Vermillion wrote: > > Steven Grady recently said: > > I got a response to my question; I thought I'd reply to the list. > > > > I have a question about this. > > > > > de0: enabling 10baseT port > > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > > > Shouldn't that be 100baseT? Or does the kernel not report this. > > > I'm not sure, but the connection is definitely 100 Mbit, as verified > > by a fast transfer of a large file But meanwhile, we reconfigured the > > interface to talk at 10Mbit, but that didn't help. > > I have heard of instances where auto-negotiation failed - and > the best bet was to configure the NIC card to be physically at > one speed or the other. And the switch port, too. If you've got a 100BaseTX card plugged into a switch, just hardwire both for 100BaseTX FullDuplex and be happy. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://softweyr.com/ wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message