Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 09:03:23 +1000 From: jonathan michaels <jon@caamora.com.au> To: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us>, ckwen <ckwen@eembox.ee.ncku.edu.tw> Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: can two fast ethernet cards work in a freebsd box ? Message-ID: <19991017090323.A23931@caamora.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910161424540.81531-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us>; from Chris Dillon on Sat, Oct 16, 1999 at 02:28:56PM -0500 References: <199910161104.TAA26753@eembox.ee.ncku.edu.tw> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910161424540.81531-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us>
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On Sat, Oct 16, 1999 at 02:28:56PM -0500, Chris Dillon wrote: > On Sat, 16 Oct 1999, ckwen wrote: > > > > > Thanks to Wes Peters and Martin Machacek. > > Now the hub's 100 Mbps LED goes on again after the execution > > of ifconfig command. The parameters I set in ifconfig are > > "media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex." > > Neither of them can be omitted. > > If this really is a HUB as you have been saying all this time, and not > a SWITCH, you don't want to be using full-duplex. ummm, this may be a silly question, if so would you (or anybody else) be so kind as to reply off list as to why and what the difference would be in this regard i've just recently gotten a couple of 100basetx nics for my three pci based computers and have started to save fro a 100basetx hub, i was then told that a swithch would be better, especially if i had lots of collisions. since mving into a new house (700 meters fron teh end of off and directly down teh middle of off teh middle of one off teh main runways of sydeny international airport. previously ultra reliable equipment has becme more than a bit quirky. i see "scanning lines" in teh tv and hear "radar chatter" on my fm tuners output and my previously quiet as a mouse power amplifier now hums and when i get my hifi and computer gear checked out it works flawlessly. but, when it come home it starts to play up. i'm hoping a switch will help in this (rf as well as audiable) noisy environment. or, am i grasping at straws ? i understand that thier isn't much i can do to "fix" this probelm or the causes, but, i'm hoping i can minimise the fallout so to speak, iff possible. regards and thanks in advance jonathan -- =============================================================================== Jonathan Michaels PO Box 144, Rosebery, NSW 1445 Australia ===========================================================<jon@caamora.com.au> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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