From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 22 14:13:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu (broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu [128.84.247.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8147915495 for ; Wed, 22 Sep 1999 14:13:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mkc@Graphics.Cornell.EDU) Received: from graphics.cornell.edu (localhost.graphics.cornell.edu) by broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu with ESMTP (1.37.109.16/16.2) id AA279044798; Wed, 22 Sep 1999 17:13:18 -0400 Message-Id: <199909222113.AA279044798@broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: dg@root.com Cc: Mike Tancsa , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to set fxp0 to half-duplex? [was: nfs tuning] In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 22 Sep 1999 13:51:09 PDT." <199909222051.NAA11987@implode.root.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 17:13:17 -0400 From: Mitch Collinsworth Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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. No kidding. This is not what I was told when I first encountered multi-speed multi-duplex network devices, but it certainly explains a lot of seemingly strange observations since then. Funny how much easier it to get ahold of bad advise than good... Thanks! -Mitch To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message