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From: Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de>
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Apologies for the bad replys. Actually, I cowardishly wrote them on Windoze.

Adrian,



Adrian De Souza schrieb:

> To whom it may concern:
>
> Right now my network is running on BNC type cabeling and I want to convert it
> to UTP. I am using 3Com NIC and running BSD 3.X
> How do I configure my server to accept the UTP change.
> [snip]
> # ifconfig -a
>
> xl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>         inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
>         ether 00:10:4b:72:ba:69
>         media: 10base2/BNC
>         supported media: 10base2/BNC 10base5/AUI
>         10baseT/UTP <full-duplex> 10baseT/UTP <half-duplex> 10baseT/UTP

 The line above shows your Ethernet adaptor supports the Media in question. I'd just
try

ifconfig xl0 down
swap cables
ifconfig xl0 up

AFAIR ethernet cards probe which media to use when bringing them up. In the worst
case, you need to reboot the box.

[snip]

> The rc.conf file:
> [snip]
> ifconfig_xl0="inet 192.168.1.1  netmask 255.255.255.0"
> [snip]
> network_interfaces="xl0 lo0"

No change neccessary.

HTH
-Christoph Sold



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