From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Apr 11 23:41:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DED937B423 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 23:41:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA03033; Thu, 12 Apr 2001 00:41:33 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010412003921.04526230@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 00:41:28 -0600 To: Bruce Albrecht , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Linux and network cards In-Reply-To: <15060.53190.561343.339737@celery.zuhause.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 03:42 PM 4/11/2001, Bruce Albrecht wrote: >I know that with FreeBSD, I can configure the card to be either >half-duplex, full-duplex or autosense, so one of the following is >true: > >A) These cards are brain-dead, and FreeBSD can't configure them either. >B) Linux is brain-dead and can't configure this with ifconfig or > whatever their equivalent command. >C) Nicholas Petreley doesn't know what he's doing, and should leave > system administration to professionals. (B) and (C). FreeBSD has no problem with these cards. You might want to inform Nick about this.... --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message