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Thread-Topic: FXP driver....
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From: "Arjan van der Oest" <Arjan.van.der.Oest@is.nl>
To: "Daniel Gonzalez" <spammesilly@gmail.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
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Subject: RE: FXP driver....
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Daniel,
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>I haven't used the fxp driver in a while but you can check out the man =
page
>for the driver (man 4 fxp) and it mentions that you can disable =
autoselect
>for media type and speed. I remember reading in an article (I can't =
locate
>the URL) that the autonegotiation between the NIC and switch/router can =
be a
>bottleneck. That would be the easiset thing to check/eliminate. Hope =
that
>helps.

For both the xl and fxp driver "(if not, for all?) this would be "media
100basetx mediaopt full-duplex" and this is standard practise for me :)
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It doesn't make any difference, neither on the 3com or the intel card :(
=20
Thanks,
=20
Arjan