Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 07:46:57 -0500 (EST) From: Troy Settle <rewt@i-Plus.net> To: Jesper Skriver <jesper@skriver.dk> Cc: "Randy A. Katz" <randyk@ccsales.com>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What would you do? Ethernet / Switches Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981120074556.15672D-100000@Radford.i-Plus.net> In-Reply-To: <19981116102952.F15098@skriver.dk>
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Stupid question for the day: How does one "lock" the settings on the Intel Etherexpress? I'd assume that it's in ifconfig, but I haven't yet read the man page (off to do that now :) -- Troy Settle <st@i-Plus.net> Network Administrator, iPlus Internet Services http://www.i-Plus.net On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, Jesper Skriver wrote: > Hi, > > I *always* lock the duplex setting both on the switch and the > host/router, my experience is that auto-sensing simply do not work ... > > Here everything that is capable of 100M full-duplex is locked at this > setting, and the matching switch port is also locked at 100M > full-duplex ... > > It's a bit of work initially, but it's far more stable ... > > /Jesper > > On Sun, Nov 15, 1998 at 06:53:37PM -0800, Randy A. Katz wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I've got around 70 machines with Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100B adapters in > > them and 9 Dlink DES3216 (10/100BaseTX switches, 16 ports). The switches > > are set as Auto out of the box and that seems to work...for awhile... > > > > It seems at various intervals the LAN side of my router which is also an > > Inter EtherExpress get input errors. I did a test and was able to have this > > happen again by setting the main switch to 100BaseTX and full-duplex, this > > caused the LAN side of that ethernet adapter to get errors...untill I > > rebooted. > > > > So what does everybody else do? I forgot to add there are around 4-5 > > machines that have 10-baseT ethernet adapters and the Auto never affects them. > > > > What would you do? Set everything on auto, set it half-duplex 100BaseTX or > > full-duplex 100BaseTX...and why? > > > > Thank you, > > Randy Katz > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > > /Jesper > > -- > Jesper Skriver (JS4261-RIPE), Network manager > Tele Danmark DataNet, IP section (AS3292) > > One Unix to rule them all, One Resolver to find them, > One IP to bring them all and in the zone to bind them. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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