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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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