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To: "Joe & Fhe Barbish" <barbish@a1poweruser.com>
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Subject: Re: ifconfig Nic card default mode? 
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From: Chris Fedde <chris@fedde.littleton.co.us>
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 22:36:45 -0700
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On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 20:44:27 -0500  "Joe & Fhe Barbish" wrote:
 +------------------
 | This is a ifconfig -a  display of my Nic card in the server 
 | connected to the Lan.
 | 
 | xl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
 | 	inet 10.0.10.2 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 10.255.255.255
 | 	ether 00:01:02:2f:c3:00 
 | 	media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
 | 	status: active
 | 
 | FTP statistics show this Nic outputting at 73 KBps while the 
 | Nic card in the only machine on the lan is outputting at 19MBps. 
 | That means the server Nic card is receiving much much faster that it
 | is sending out. The conclusion is that no matter what the ifconfig 
 | says about the server Nic card it is not sending at 100baset 
 | full-duplex mode by default. 
 | 
 | How do I force it into 100baseT mode so FBSD knows about it? 
 +------------------

That data confuses me.  If there are only two stations on the wire
where is the data going?  It does not make sense that one station
maxes transmit at 73KBytes/sec while the other transmits at
19MBytes/sec.  The data has to be going somewhere.   I'm misunderstanding
something in your description.

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    Chris Fedde

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