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Date:      Sat, 18 Aug 2001 22:39:33 -0600
From:      01031149@3web.net
To:        Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com>
Cc:        Freebsd Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Very slow Ethernet performance
Message-ID:  <20010818223932.B823751@mandy.rockingd.calgary.ab.ca>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0108181835150.16969-100000@ren.sasknow.com>; from "Ryan Thompson" on Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 06:37:20PM
References:  <20010818091752.A66567@mandy.rockingd.calgary.ab.ca> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0108181835150.16969-100000@ren.sasknow.com>

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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


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