From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 22 14:26:42 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 522CD154AD for ; Wed, 22 Sep 1999 14:26:32 -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 AA279575587; Wed, 22 Sep 1999 17:26:28 -0400 Message-Id: <199909222126.AA279575587@broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" Cc: 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 14:03:56 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 17:26:27 -0400 From: Mitch Collinsworth 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. > >Good advice, but when problems occur, try turning off auto-sensing. That's what he was said. >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. If your switch will only auto-sense and can't be locked down, and the computer will not auto-sense, then according to David's message you can expect the worst. And it sounds like that's just what you got. Throw out that garbage [switch?] and get a real one. [Do people really make unconfigurable switches? Or is this really a hub?] -Mitch To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message