From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 31 11:59:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (mg132-048.ricochet.net [204.179.132.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C24437B693 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 11:59:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA00310; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 09:45:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200003311745.JAA00310@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "Matthew Zahorik" Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BOOTP kernel modification In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 31 Mar 2000 12:33:13 EST." <019001bf9b37$3111f430$1401eed8@mahatma> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 09:45:56 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hello! > > I have a problem where I'm trying to bootp an Alpha box. It works great > over a hub, but through a switch it fails miserably. > > I tracked it down to a bad autoconfiguration. The switch is > autonegotiating 100Mb/fdx and the client is autonegotiating 100Mb/hdx. > Needless to say, this doesn't help with BOOTP requests - things tend to time > out. Forcing the switch to 100Mb/hdx makes the process work smoothly. > Forcing the switch to 100Mb/fdx causes more timeouts. > > For other reasons, I'd like to force the switch to 100Mb/fdx at all times, > and just force the BOOTP process to initialize the card at a 100Mb/fdx. The 'dc' driver will pick up the settings from SRM, so just initialise the SRM correctly to whatever you want. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message