From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 18 21:44:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.cybersurf.net (smtp1.cybersurf.net [209.197.145.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68F6637B405 for ; Sat, 18 Aug 2001 21:44:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from 01031149@3web.net) Received: from 3web.net ([209.197.155.18]) by smtp1.cybersurf.net (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with SMTP id GIAT6P00.6AB for ; Sat, 18 Aug 2001 22:44:49 -0600 Received: by 3web.net (EzMTS MTSAgent 1.22b Service) ; Sat, 18 Aug 01 22:44:45 -0600 for Received: from 3web.net (127.0.0.1) by 3web.net (EzMTS MTSSmtp 1.50 Service) ; Sat, 18 Aug 01 22:39:41 -0600 for Received: by mandy.rockingd.calgary.ab.ca (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sat, 18 Aug 2001 22:39:35 +4200 Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 22:39:33 -0600 From: 01031149@3web.net To: Ryan Thompson Cc: Freebsd Questions Subject: Re: Very slow Ethernet performance Message-ID: <20010818223932.B823751@mandy.rockingd.calgary.ab.ca> Mail-Followup-To: Ryan Thompson , Freebsd Questions References: <20010818091752.A66567@mandy.rockingd.calgary.ab.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from "Ryan Thompson" on Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 06:37:20PM X-Envelope-Receiver: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 06:37:20PM -0600, Ryan Thompson wrote: > 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 That trick I new -- but thanks for taking the time! I'm learning...;) -- -duke Calgary, Alberta, Canada To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message