Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 10:51:57 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Peter Lennon <pl2@balernochs.edin.sch.uk> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: de0 and half duplex Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980218105011.13646N-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <l03110701b10faedf2064@[195.188.194.38]>
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On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Peter Lennon wrote:
> Before I say anything else - thanks for FreeBSD - I don't see it said
> nearly often enough in the lists. It made our whole-school access to the
> Internet possible.
Excellent! :)
>
> I have a Pentium 133 box just upgraded to 2.2.5-RELEASE, with an SMC 10/100
> PCI Etherpower card. I also have a switch with two 100mbps ports which
> only do half duplex (FYI, USR TotalSwitch, and they stopped developing it
> before they had the software fixed to do full duplex, grrrr.)
Odd..
> Reading between the lines in "man de" I put
>
> ifconfig_de0="inet 195.188.194.2 media 100baseTX -mediaopt full-duplex
^^^^^^^^^^^
Your hub must support FDX if you're going to use it. This forces the idea
so there's no fallback. Take that out and you should be happy.
Doug White | University of Oregon
Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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