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Subject: Re: lan speed
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 05:33:33 +0100
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>> > > Hi. I have win2k box with 100mb card in it, and a Freebsd dual homed box
>> > > with 100mb on local interface and 10mb on internet side.
>> > > when transfering files from win2k to freebsd i get max 60kb/s throughput,
>> > > and 3com 10/100 hub shows load of only 10%.
>> > > what can be done to acchive a higher rate? thank you
>> >
>> > Make sure you set the media type rather than allowing auto-select (the
>> > default).
>> >
>> > In your rc.conf on the freeBSD box, you need, in the ifconfig_xl0 line,
>> >
>> > media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex

> > Umm, if he is using a hub setting the card to full-duplex will cause
> > horrible amounts of collisions.  They should be half duplex.

> to set it to half duplex, am I right in thinking you need a
>
> -mediaopt full-duplex
>
> in place of
>
> mediaopt full-duplex
>
> in ifconfig_rl0 in rc.conf?

To answer my own question here, that is the correct alteration to rc.conf to alter the
duplex settings, and ...

ifconfig rl0 -mediaopt full-duplex

(change rl0 for your adapter)

..at the shell will alter it without a reboot (which is proabbly obvious to everyone
except me :+) ).

Regards,
Mark


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