From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Feb 15 12:33:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA17716 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Sun, 15 Feb 1998 12:33:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mixcom.mixcom.com (daemon@mixcom.mixcom.com [198.137.186.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA17711 for ; Sun, 15 Feb 1998 12:33:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mountin.man@mixcom.com) Received: by mixcom.mixcom.com (8.6.12/2.2) id OAA27483; Sun, 15 Feb 1998 14:35:21 -0600 Received: from dial193-25.mixcom.com(207.250.193.25) by mixcom.mixcom.com via smap (V1.3) id sma027452; Sun Feb 15 14:34:53 1998 Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19980215142913.0073fe64@198.137.186.100> X-Sender: mmttnn@198.137.186.100 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 14:29:13 -0600 To: Archie Cobbs From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" Subject: Re: Fw: FreeBSD firewall questions Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199802152022.MAA25309@bubba.whistle.com> References: <199802130318.WAA07752@sabre.goldsword.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 12:22 PM 2/15/98 -0800, Archie Cobbs wrote: >John T. Farmer writes: >> 4. In almost every instance that one of my client's have installed >> a cross-over cable between two Ethernet devices, they have ended >> up replacing it shortly with a hub. Why? If you have two >> machines wired together, soon there will be a reason to be >> able to connect up the laptop from work, or Junior's PC, or... > >One more reason.. often the dual 10BaseT/100BaseT PC cards fail >to auto-detect the correct speed unless they are connected to a >hub (in my experience). Not sure exactly why this is... maybe it's >a function of the general amount of traffic. I've found the 3C595 requires a reboot for autodetect to change from 10 -> 100 and vice versa. The Intel Pro 100B can do this on the fly from 10 -> 100 or 10 -> 100 duplex and back. This was was with a Intel 3205 switch, so it may have been that they played nicer together, but the 3C595 would not change on the fly with a 3Com switch. This also worked with a cross cable and was the same for FBSD and NT/95 (amazingly). And I expected to reboot. Jeff Mountin - Unix Systems TCP/IP networking mountin.man@mixcom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message