From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 7 12:36:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dv-db.com (dv-db.com [207.159.141.95]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EF3037B401 for ; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 12:36:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mark2 (host217-35-34-245.in-addr.btopenworld.com [217.35.34.245]) by dv-db.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id UAA21594; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 20:36:39 +0100 (GMT/BST) Message-ID: <061701c137d4$56855e60$0200a8c0@mark2> From: "Mark Hughes" To: "Neil Darlow" , Cc: References: <20010907.17051700@ideal.darlow.co.uk> <20010907133614.C49206@comp04.prc.uic.edu> <20010907.19284800@ideal.darlow.co.uk> Subject: Re: Collisions slowing network response Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 20:35:25 +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 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Try manually setting the interface(s) to 10baseT/UTP and/or > > half-duplex? See ifconfig(8) and rl(4). > > I can get ifconfig to accept "media 10baseT/UTP" but when I try the > "mediaopt half-duplex" (both without quotes) I get the following error > message. > > ifconfig: SIOCSIFMEDIA: Device not configured > > what am I doing wrong here? I find that "mediaopt -full-duplex" works to force half duplex, and "mediaopt full-duplex" works to force full duplex. Hope that helps, Mark -- Mark Hughes - DVD & Film Content Manager, Technical Officer Digital Spy Ltd http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/ Your number one source for digital media and entertainment news! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message