From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 16 14:26:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mashie.force9.net (mashie.force9.net [195.166.128.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7734B14CE7 for ; Sat, 16 Oct 1999 14:26:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ric@sinclairassoc.force9.co.uk) Received: (qmail 2891 invoked from network); 16 Oct 1999 21:26:46 -0000 Received: from mayfly.plus.net.uk (HELO mayfly.force9.net) (195.166.128.28) by mashie.force9.net with SMTP; 16 Oct 1999 21:26:46 -0000 Received: (qmail 13124 invoked from network); 16 Oct 1999 21:26:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO sinclairassoc.force9.co.uk) (212.56.95.227) by mayfly.plus.net.uk with SMTP; 16 Oct 1999 21:26:45 -0000 Message-ID: <3808EDA1.8725A42B@sinclairassoc.force9.co.uk> Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 22:26:57 +0100 From: Richard Morte Organization: Sinclair Associates X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en-GB, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Full or Half Duplex NICs Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a network configured with the Netgear FA310TX ethernet cards and Netgear 8 port hub. Cards are 10/100 and hub is 10/100 autosensing. On bootup both FreeBSD machines default to: media: 100BaseTX (half-duplex) Would there be any advantage in running the entire network at full duplex? If so, how do I specify this in ifconfig? Thanks in advance, Ric To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message