From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 2 9:51: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nebula.anchoragerescue.org (cable-115-7-237-24.anchorageak.net [24.237.7.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 799E137B42F for ; Sun, 2 Dec 2001 09:50:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from there (galaxy.anchoragerescue.org [24.237.7.95]) by nebula.anchoragerescue.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4E22C8B; Sun, 2 Dec 2001 08:50:48 -0900 (AKST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Beech Rintoul To: "denny white" , Subject: Re: IPv6 & NIC problems, slow access using linksys pccard and ed driver Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 08:50:47 -0900 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: <011101c17b56$35267040$6601a8c0@hal> In-Reply-To: <011101c17b56$35267040$6601a8c0@hal> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20011202175048.4E22C8B@nebula.anchoragerescue.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday 02 December 2001 08:24 am, denny white wrote: > Had written to the group previously about this problem, then used > another system for awhile on my laptop instead of FreeBSD in order > to get some work done. Now am running FreeBSD again, version 4.4 > & everything is working fine except am still getting dismal speeds on > my cable Internet connection. When I had IPv6 enabled in the kernel & > in rc.conf, I would get the message "DAD detected duplicate IPv6 address > fe80:0004::02e0:98ff:fe8a:a1fc: NS in/out=1/1 NA in =0". I had read where > someone else had similar problems & that's when I commented IPv6 out > in rc.conf, took it out of the kernel & recompiled it. The 1st time after > reboot, I got great speeds for awhile. Then later it was back to about ISDN > rates & often much lower. On Ted Mittelstaedt's advice from message back > from several months ago, I've ordered a 3com 3c589c nic, because he said > that's the 1st thing anyone would ask me, if I had the same the problem > with any other cards, but while I'm waiting on it, I'd still like to get to > the bottom of this if I could. Below are copies of the current ifconfig & > dmesg output along with pccard_ether & the kernel config info. Please > advise if there's anything else I can post to help. > The pcmcia nic info is: > LinkSys Fast Ethernet 10/100 PC Card - Model NP100 > Thanks to all for any & all help. > Dennis White > (snip) Try adding "media 10baseT/utp" to your ifconfig line in /etc/rc.conf. I had similar problems with a linksys card in autoselect mode. Beech ------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - IT Manager - Instructor - akbeech@anchoragerescue.org /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Anchorage Gospel Rescue Mission \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | P.O. Box 230510 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99523-0510 / \ ----------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message