From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 22 14: 4: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from horst.bfd.com (horst.bfd.com [12.9.219.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A140115802 for ; Wed, 22 Sep 1999 14:04:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ejs@bfd.com) Received: from HARLIE.bfd.com (bastion.bfd.com [12.9.219.14]) by horst.bfd.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA20168; Wed, 22 Sep 1999 14:03:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ejs@bfd.com) Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 14:03:56 -0700 (PDT) From: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" To: Mike Tancsa Cc: Mitch Collinsworth , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to set fxp0 to half-duplex? [was: nfs tuning] In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19990922161313.01e84c80@staff.sentex.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Mike Tancsa wrote: > At 03:58 PM 9/22/99 -0400, Mitch Collinsworth wrote: > >>ifconfig fxp0 media 10BaseT/UTP > >>ifconfig fxp0 media 10BaseT/UTP mediaopt full-duplex > >> > >>No reboot is needed. > > > >ackk! It's not auto-sensing! I've been ass_u_ming it was. > >Why, pray tell, isn't this documented? > > I never trust auto-sensing. Tell both ends what they are configured for. Good advice, but when problems occur, try turning off auto-sensing. We've got a 10/100Mbit switch in the office that if you hook up a computer that doesn't auto-sense but forces 100Mbit, either full or half duplex, the throughput drops into the 10-50KB/sec range. Of course, in this case, the advice can't be exactly followed, because the switch can only auto-sense, it can't be configured. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message