From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 22 13:52:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from implode.root.com (root.com [209.102.106.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F7D814F80 for ; Wed, 22 Sep 1999 13:52:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dg@implode.root.com) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA11987; Wed, 22 Sep 1999 13:51:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199909222051.NAA11987@implode.root.com> To: Mitch Collinsworth Cc: Mike Tancsa , questions@FreeBSD.ORG, mkc@broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu Subject: Re: how to set fxp0 to half-duplex? [was: nfs tuning] In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 22 Sep 1999 16:42:43 EDT." <199909222042.AA278122963@broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu> From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 13:51:09 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>I never trust auto-sensing. Tell both ends what they are configured for. > >Agreed. I do this wherever I can but some boxes either can't be >nailed down or I haven't discovered how yet. In general I've had >good results by always locking the settings at the switch and letting >the computers I can't control autosense. I mistook fxp0 for another >case of 'defaults to autosense'. The fxp device does default to auto-sense, but if you hard configure the other end then [NWAY] autonegotiation is disabled, and thus whenever you do that you have to set both ends if you want to be sure it is correct. The default without autonegotiation is half-duplex. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message