Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 02:39:29 +0100 From: "Ian J Greely" <ian@tirnanog.org> To: "Richard Morte" <ric@sinclairassoc.force9.co.uk>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Full or Half Duplex NICs Message-ID: <001801bf1840$7578fc60$e17b38d4@ciara>
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If you only have the two machines connecting them with a crossover cable instead of a hub will allow you to run in full duplex. regards, Ian -----Original Message----- From: Richard Morte <ric@sinclairassoc.force9.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Date: Saturday, October 16, 1999 10:32 PM Subject: Full or Half Duplex NICs >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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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