From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 19 20:22:45 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A31537B401 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2003 20:22:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E6D643F75 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2003 20:22:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.9/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h5K3MZDo038668; Fri, 20 Jun 2003 12:52:36 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Mike Silbersack Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 12:52:34 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <200306161909.33474.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20030617011055.O8740@odysseus.silby.com> <200306171729.20775.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200306171729.20775.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200306201252.34849.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -1.2 () CARRIAGE_RETURNS,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_03_05,USER_AGENT X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.16 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vr(4) duplex problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 03:22:45 -0000 On Tuesday 17 June 2003 17:29, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > > ukphy0: on miibus1 > > > ukphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto > > > > Nothing out of the ordinary there, but perhaps we're messing up by _not_ > > recognizing a specific PHY and doing something special. Hmmmm... > > > > I have an idea, but since forced duplex works for you, I'm not inclined > > to spend time on it now. > > OK, I will get back to you with the results with a different switch in a > few days... Hmm, well all I could manage was a 5 port micro switch. It is made by Alloy but can autodetect crossover (MDX?). It works fine with the vr port doing autodetect, so I guess it's an interaction with the older switch. No idea how ammenable to software fixing that would be though :( -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5