Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 08:17:04 -0500 From: "Brett D. Estrade" <estrabd@mailcan.com> To: "Bruce O'Neel" <edoneel@sdf.lonestar.org>, freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sun Ultra 2 and hme not in full duplex Message-ID: <1123679824.23377.240381298@webmail.messagingengine.com> In-Reply-To: <20050810073802.GB9599@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG> References: <20050810073802.GB9599@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG>
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On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 07:38:02 +0000, "Bruce O'Neel" <edoneel@sdf.lonestar.org> said: > Hi, > > When I boot my sun ultra 2 with a hme, my switch doesn't see > the connection as full duplex. > > The line in rc.conf is: > > ifconfig_hme0="inet 192.168.0.8 netmask 255.255.255.0 media autoselect" > > Adding or removing the media autoselect seems to make no difference. > > An ifconfig shows: > > biasca# ifconfig hme0 > hme0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > options=b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU> > inet 192.168.0.8 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255 > inet6 fe80::a00:20ff:fe89:99ba%hme0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 > ether 08:00:20:89:99:ba > media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX) > status: active > > > Now, if I type > > ifconfig hme0 media autoselect > > the interface drops off the switch and then comes back up > in full duplex. > > Now ifconfig shows: > > biasca# ifconfig hme0 > hme0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > options=b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU> > inet 192.168.0.8 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255 > inet6 fe80::a00:20ff:fe89:99ba%hme0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 > ether 08:00:20:89:99:ba > media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>) > status: active > > Is there a handy way to make this happen on boot? I am not an ifconfig expert, but dropping a little script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d (that follows the standard form of things there) should handle on boot ... perhaps the *right* thing to do is figure out why ifconfig is not doing what you want it to the first time. Brett -- ~Sedit qui timuit ne non succederet~
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