From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 13 20:56: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ind.alcatel.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B46023E29; Sun, 13 Feb 2000 20:56:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com (mailhub [198.206.181.70]) by ind.alcatel.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1 (ind.alcatel.com 3.0 [OUT])) with SMTP id UAA05352; Sun, 13 Feb 2000 20:56:06 -0800 (PST) X-Origination-Site: Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id UAA07151; Sun, 13 Feb 2000 20:56:06 -0800 Received: from softweyr.com (homer.softweyr.com [204.68.178.39]) by omni.xylan.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1 (Xylan engr [SPOOL])) with ESMTP id UAA16990; Sun, 13 Feb 2000 20:56:04 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <38A78C64.A25639F6@softweyr.com> Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 22:02:28 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jim Mercer Cc: cjclark@home.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: patches for de driver (full-duplex packet loss problems) References: <20000211155948.D13211@reptiles.org> <20000213180555.I31722@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> <20000213212914.F700@reptiles.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jim Mercer wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 06:05:55PM -0500, Crist J. Clark wrote: > > > Just one question I always ask people trying to get things working at > > full-duplex, is the card plugged into a hub at the other end? > > actually, we started with cross over cables, and then suspecting them, tried > jacking into a number of 10mbp and 10/100mbps hubs. > > still getting various problems (from high packet loss to not being able to > sync up 100bps/fullduplex). Be warned that hubs don't play the full-duplex tune. You have have to use a crossover or a full-duplex switch. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message