From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 28 7:14:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.nortenet.pt (mar.nortenet.pt [212.13.32.243]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F72C37B423 for ; Sat, 28 Apr 2001 07:14:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from guilherme@nortenet.pt) Received: from nortenet.pt (v1-pppS20.nortenet.pt [212.13.32.20]) by mail.nortenet.pt (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f3SECaC22445; Sat, 28 Apr 2001 15:12:36 +0100 Message-ID: <3AEAD033.C5986090@nortenet.pt> Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 15:14:11 +0100 From: Guilherme Oliveira X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.19 i586) X-Accept-Language: pt, pt-BR, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Siegbert Baude Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Realtek 8139 very slow ! References: <3AE78686.675C1431@nortenet.pt> <004b01c0cdff$af51c4a0$cc01a8c0@xyf> <3AE84807.342A948@nortenet.pt> <3AEAC1CE.59626289@gmx.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Siegbert Baude wrote: > > So, where is your NIC connected to? DSL? Switch? Cross-connect cable > to another NIC? > You have to determine, whether you need full-duplex or half-duplex. > Half-duplex being the safe bet. To another NIC. > man ifconfig > man rl I didn't know that FreeBSD have man page for rl ... Good ! > You do this with "ifconfig". To make it permanent add a line in > /etc/rc.conf . > I have there: > ifconfig_rl0="inet netmask media 10baseT/UTP" > > This will force half-duplex. For full-duplex you have to add the > "mediaopt full-duplex" term. > Note that the man page is somewhat unclear there, at least last time I > checked it. It's working now ! I didn't know, until reading the other 8139 thread, that I have a bad NIC. And I thaught it was working at full power ... Tnx! []'s To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message