From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 23 17: 0:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from grumpy.dyndns.org (cm-24-246-28-166.toney.mediacom.ispchannel.com [24.246.28.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B08A37B479 for ; Thu, 23 Nov 2000 17:00:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grumpy.dyndns.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eAO10XS77289; Thu, 23 Nov 2000 19:00:35 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org) Message-Id: <200011240100.eAO10XS77289@grumpy.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Rick Hamell Cc: FreeBSD-questions From: David Kelly Subject: Re: Ifconfig In-reply-to: Message from Rick Hamell of "Wed, 22 Nov 2000 16:56:48 GMT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 19:00:33 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Rick Hamell writes: > > How do I get Ifconfig to configure my network card (fxp1) into > half-duplex? Also, dose anyone happen to know if the Intel Express 10/100 > Stackable Hubs are half-duplex? My old Kingston 10mbs card (da0) worked > just fine, and all I did was add a 2nd Intel (fxp1) 100mbs card... If its a hub then it is half-duplex, not full-duplex. You have to have a switch or dedicated point-to-point wire to run full-duplex. By default FreeBSD autonegotiates on the fxp driver. If you are connected to a hub then its smart enough to go half-duplex. Here is an example of an fxp which has decided to be full duplex at 100: grumpy: {1013} ifconfig fxp0 fxp0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 [snip] media: autoselect (100baseTX ) status: active supported media: autoselect 100baseTX 100baseTX 10baseT/UTP 10baseT/UTP grumpy: {1014} Were I to yank the wire and insert into a 10baseT hub then it will automatically do the right thing without any additional help. Notice the media: line says, "autoselect" then in parenthisis it shows what it has decided to do. I believe if one wanted to force half duplex 100baseTX then "ifconfig fxp1 media 100baseTX" would do it. Then to manually force full duplex guessing from the man page on fxp (haven't tried it) one would have to do "ifconfig fxp1 media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex". -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message