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Date:      Fri, 13 Apr 2001 11:40:46 -0700
From:      "Keenan Tims" <keenantims@home.com>
To:        "Siegbert Baude" <Siegbert.Baude@gmx.de>
Cc:        <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Very slow LAN transfers
Message-ID:  <000901c0c449$411ab560$0200a8c0@cr122665a>
References:  <001f01c0c1be$05baa940$0701a8c0@darryl> <000901c0c254$aff6c380$0200a8c0@cr122665a> <00a301c0c295$fe4934a0$4011a8c0@wohnheim.uniulm.de>

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Well what could it be then, that's the only thing i could think of?

Keenan Tims
keenantims@home.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Siegbert Baude" <Siegbert.Baude@gmx.de>
To: "Keenan Tims" <keenantims@home.com>; <darryl@osborne-ind.com>
Cc: <questions@freebsd.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 7:44 AM
Subject: Re: Very slow LAN transfers


> > Hmm...I tried
> > "ifconfig rl0 mediaopt half-duplex" and i get this message
>
> > ifconfig: SIOCSIFMEDIA: Device not configured
>
> The man page is somehow unclear there. You only have to use the mediaopt
> option, if you want to force full-duplex. But you donīt have to worry
about
> it, because youīre running already in half-duplex mode, as your ifconfig
> states:
>
> >rl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> >     inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
> >     ether 00:48:54:88:62:bd
> >     media: 10baseT/UTP status: active
> >     supported media: autoselect 100baseTX <full-duplex> 100baseTX
> 10baseT/UTP
> >     <full-duplex> 10baseT/UTP 100baseTX <hw-loopback>
>
> The media: line tells you "10baseT/UTP", that is half-duplex. It would
read
> "10baseT/UTP <full-duplex>" if your Realtek card were in full-duplex mode.
> So whatever your problem is, itīs not the missing half-duplex mode.
>
> Ciao
> Siegbert
>


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