Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 11:39:14 EST From: Andrea Venturoli <ml.ventu@flashnet.it> To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Meditation on rl driver Message-ID: <200102091039.f19AdGl25740@relay.flashnet.it>
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** Reply to note from Clark Gaylord <cgaylord@vt.edu> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 12:46:06 -0500 > It used to be the case that mediaopt half-duplex worked. It stopped > working at some point (I don't recall exactly when ... somewhere > between 4.0 and 4.2 I think), So this IS a bug. > but it seems that this is the default > (as it should be) if you specify 10baseT/UTP. Just wish the man page would say this. > I would be concerned > that the -full-duplex setting might actually be setting to *use* > full-duplex, not turn it off. Check the src on this; clearly the > man page is just plain wrong. Well, it's been working for a couple of weeks now, so I guess -full-duplex turns it off. > > _ autoselecting the media obviously does not work correctly, does it? > > Autoselect of duplex gets it right, in general, about 51.045% of > the time, and should be considered an Evil Spawn of Satan (ESS). Did not know this. I always used autoselect in a lot of computers with various OSes and different NICs, and this is the first time I had any problem. > When you say full-duplex doesn't work are you saying that the driver > barfs at the mention of it or that your NIC does not work properly > when it is set (which is correct, as your modem is hdx). I don't remember the exact message (and I don't have the box here now), but it was ifconfig that just refused the option (seemed that it could not get the driver to accept it). > Does it > accept the parameter when the card is set to 100 (while fdx 10 does > exist, it is less common, and I have seen drivers/NICs that only support > fdx at 100Mbps)? Didn't have the chance to try. Bye & Thanks av. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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