From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 27 13:41:02 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADC7716A41F for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 13:41:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lane@joeandlane.com) Received: from smtpauth08.mail.atl.earthlink.net (smtpauth08.mail.atl.earthlink.net [209.86.89.68]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D99343D48 for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 13:41:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lane@joeandlane.com) Received: from [66.47.111.183] (helo=joeandlane.com) by smtpauth08.mail.atl.earthlink.net with asmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1Dxm9d-0001pl-Cl for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 09:41:01 -0400 Received: from joeandlane.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by joeandlane.com (8.13.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j6RDn8X7017728 for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 08:49:08 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from lane@joeandlane.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by joeandlane.com (8.13.4/8.13.1/Submit) id j6RDn7rD017727 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 08:49:07 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from lane@joeandlane.com) X-Authentication-Warning: joeandlane.com: lholcombe set sender to lane@joeandlane.com using -f From: Lane To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 08:49:06 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <200507251556.26672.lane@joeandlane.com> <20050727093217.J4096@radium.cmbn.vangeyn.net> In-Reply-To: <20050727093217.J4096@radium.cmbn.vangeyn.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200507270849.07180.lane@joeandlane.com> X-CD-SOLUTIONS-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-CD-SOLUTIONS-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-CD-SOLUTIONS-MailScanner-From: lane@joeandlane.com X-ELNK-Trace: e56a4b6ca9bdfda11aa676d7e74259b7b3291a7d08dfec79ee27f79934bddae3a216a70053036704350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 66.47.111.183 Subject: Re: pppOe 1000baseTX config X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 13:41:02 -0000 On Wednesday 27 July 2005 08:35, David van Geyn wrote: > You won't gain anything beyond 10baseT/UTP with your DSL line. Also > because it is autodetecting at 10baseT/UTP suggests that your DSL modem > only has 10baseT support built in to it, so you can't use anything higher. > > Same goes for your internetl interface re0. It it autodetecting 100baseTX > full-duplex which suggests that you have a 10/100baseTX switch. You can't > just make your NIC use gigabit if the other end doesn't support it. > > You won't gain any speed on the DSL side for sure. > > Generally speaking I find autodetect to work well most of the time. I have > rarely had a problem. > > David > FreeBSD Tutorials @ http://freebsd.vangeyn.net > > On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Lane wrote: > > Is there any speed advatage possible beyond the (10baseT/UTP)? If not > > then I guess it doesn't matter. > > > > The dsl modem is on bge0, which ifconfig reports as > > > > bge0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 > >         options=1a > >         inet6 fe80::211:11ff:febd:be3a%bge0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 > >         ether 00:11:11:bd:be:3a > >         media: Ethernet autoselect (10baseT/UTP) > > > > My expectation (hope) is to change the "10base" in the media: line to > > "100base" or "1000base" to gain any throughput advantage that is > > possible. > > > > The internal network is on re0, which ifconfig reports as > > > > re0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 > >         options=1b > >         inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255 > >         inet6 fe80::240:f4ff:feb4:841a%re0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 > >         ether 00:40:f4:b4:84:1a > >         media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX ) > >         status: active > > > > I'd like the change the "100base" in the media: line to a "1000base", if > > possible. > > > > thanks for your eyes! > > > > lane Hey, thanks, David. So all I gotta do is (ugh) upgrade the hardware. At least on the internal side. lane