From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Feb 18 11:23:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail4.uunet.ca (mail4.uunet.ca [209.167.141.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3280537BA0E for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 11:23:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET) Received: from epsilon.lucida.qc.ca ([216.95.146.6]) by mail4.uunet.ca with ESMTP id <208126-12994>; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 14:23:11 -0500 Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 14:23:10 -0500 From: Matt Heckaman X-Sender: matt@epsilon.lucida.qc.ca To: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" Cc: Jorge Aldana , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: good network card (xl0 packet dropping) In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.20000218125024.009efd00@207.227.119.2> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote: [...] : What switch? And why set the media? "Bonkers" is a bit vague. : : The Intel autosenses speed/duplex well with Intel, 3Com, and Cisco switches : from my dealings with and does so with FBSD or Win 9x/NT. Can't say the : same about 3Com 9xx (old and new). YMMV I'm using 3c905b-tx cards with a Cisco 1548M switch, they all autosense quite well at full-duplex 100Mbps, the one 3c509 in there also has no problem autosensing on that particular switch. FYI =) : Jeff Mountin - jeff@mountin.net : Systems/Network Administrator : FreeBSD - the power to serve -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message