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Date:      Wed, 2 May 2001 00:47:30 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Gordon Tetlow <gordont@bluemtn.net>
To:        The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc:        Matt Groener <matt@groenquist.com>, <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: fxp driver in -stable ...
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.33.0105020046160.26317-100000@sdmail0.sd.bmarts.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0105020356540.411-100000@mobile.hub.org>

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On Wed, 2 May 2001, The Hermit Hacker wrote:

> On Tue, 1 May 2001, Matt Groener wrote:
>
> > I am currently running -STABLE with fxp card with no problems.
> > I am in the middle of a multiple hundreds of GB transfer (280GB)
> > with no problems so far. My only change was to force the "media"
> > and "mediaopt" functionality in ifconfig so that my Cisco switch
> > would stop erroring out (maybe your problem?)
>
> What kind of "erroring out" were/are you seeing?

Cisco's are horrible at autonegotiation. They always get the duplex wrong.
At the very least, it will negotiate down to 100tx-half when both sides
support full-duplex. So the best way is to just lock everything down.

-gordon


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