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Date:      Sat, 18 Aug 2001 18:37:20 -0600 (CST)
From:      Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com>
To:        Duke Normandin <01031149@3web.net>
Cc:        Freebsd Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Very slow Ethernet performance
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0108181835150.16969-100000@ren.sasknow.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010818091752.A66567@mandy.rockingd.calgary.ab.ca>

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Duke Normandin wrote to Freebsd Questions:

> > It depends on your network card.  Try ifconfig -m to see what your nic
> > supports.  For fxp, this is what I add to the end of all of my rc.conf
> > entries:
> > 
> > media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex
> 
> Is the '-m' flag new in the 4.x incarnations? I se that 'ifconfig -m'
> is not supported on my 3.3R box.

Or, just look at the man page for your network interface (drop the node
number... eg, man fxp) for the list of media types the driver supports.
Your NIC may not support all of the media types the (more generic) driver
supports, there's usually no harm in trying ;-)

- Ryan

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