From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 16 18:37: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cask.force9.net (cask.force9.net [195.166.128.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B415014C90 for ; Sat, 16 Oct 1999 18:36:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ian@tirnanog.org) Received: (qmail 9337 invoked from network); 17 Oct 1999 01:36:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ciara) (212.56.123.225) by cask.force9.net with SMTP; 17 Oct 1999 01:36:57 -0000 Message-ID: <001801bf1840$7578fc60$e17b38d4@ciara> Reply-To: "Ian J Greely" From: "Ian J Greely" To: "Richard Morte" , Subject: Re: Full or Half Duplex NICs Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 02:39:29 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To: 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