From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Oct 8 09:35:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA28887 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 09:35:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [207.153.65.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA28869 for ; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 09:35:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id MAA05261; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 12:35:03 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 12:35:03 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: Mike Smith cc: Richard Foulk , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Full duplex ethernet In-Reply-To: <199810080543.WAA01244@dingo.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > Which ether-card drivers currently support full duplex? > > de, fxp, tl, xl, tx at least. Basically, the high-performance cards. Bill Paull reports that the RealTek chip supports full duplex as well. how about the winbond and liteon? They will when I'm done with them. So, to completly qualify your answer, a number of high-performance cards and a number of really trashy evil ugly cards. I wouldn't be surprised if you could get any of the RealTek, Winbond, or Liteon cards for $10 or $15. Regarding Mike's bit about 100meg hubs vs. 10meg switches the only reason I can see for a switch over a hub is if you need SNMP (usually standard on switches) and you don't want to allow systems on the same network to snoop eachother. -- | Matthew N. Dodd | 78 280Z | 75 164E | 84 245DL | FreeBSD/NetBSD/Sprite/VMS | | winter@jurai.net | This Space For Rent | ix86,sparc,m68k,pmax,vax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | Are you k-rad elite enough for my webpage? | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message