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Date:      Mon, 11 Aug 1997 21:54:31 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Ben Black <black@zen.cypher.net>
To:        Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
Cc:        David Greenman <dg@root.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: fxp driver full duplex packet loss problem 
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.3.91.970811215346.21695A-100000@zen.cypher.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970811184359.8572D-100000@misery.sdf.com>

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assuming the 1900 has the same software config commands as the 5500 then 
you should just be able to say:

set port duplex <port> full

and it will automatically switch right then.

On Mon, 11 Aug 1997, Tom Samplonius wrote:

> 
> On Mon, 11 Aug 1997, Tom Samplonius wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On Mon, 11 Aug 1997, Ben Black wrote:
> > 
> > > a good indication of this duplex mismatch is a sudden appearance of FCS 
> > > errors and Runts on the cisco interface.  
> > 
> >   When I switch full duplex on the FreeBSD server, the switch starts
> > recording late collision errors on that port (a 10BT port on a Cat 1900).
> > I'm not sure what this means.
> > 
> > Tom
> 
>   Actually I do know (now) what that means.  The switch (which is supposed
> to auto-negotiate and has no manual setting) is set to half, and card is
> set to full.
> 
>   I'm guessing the switch doesn't understand devices switching from half
> to full on the fly, and only detects this on intial connect.  I will try
> turning full duplex on, and them plug it into a different port.
> 
> Tom
> 



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