From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 18 11:05:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA11128 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 11:05:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA10956 for ; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 11:04:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA13742; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 10:51:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 10:51:57 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Peter Lennon cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: de0 and half duplex In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message