From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Nov 20 04:47:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA27526 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Fri, 20 Nov 1998 04:47:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from Radford.i-Plus.net (Radford.i-Plus.net [208.24.67.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA27521 for ; Fri, 20 Nov 1998 04:47:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rewt@i-Plus.net) Received: from Radford.i-Plus.net (rewt@Radford.i-Plus.net [208.24.67.15]) by Radford.i-Plus.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id HAA16829; Fri, 20 Nov 1998 07:46:57 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 07:46:57 -0500 (EST) From: Troy Settle To: Jesper Skriver cc: "Randy A. Katz" , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What would you do? Ethernet / Switches In-Reply-To: <19981116102952.F15098@skriver.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 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