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Date:      Fri, 31 Oct 1997 16:47:58 -0800
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
Cc:        hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: fxp0 and full duplex 
Message-ID:  <199711010047.QAA25357@implode.root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 31 Oct 1997 19:38:20 EST." <3.0.2.32.19971031193820.0266e950@sentex.net> 

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>>   No, but trust me. :-)
>>   Seriously, there really should be a way to sense the mode when it is in
>>"autoselect" so that it can be displayed with ifconfig.
>
>Wow!  Thanks for the quick response... I have a feeling the card is in half
>duplex since I am getting a steady stream of collisions (.4%) ... Its
>connected to a Cisco 4700 FastE port via cross over cable taking a 5Mbit
>ATM feed.  I would have thought the collisions would almost be nonexistant....

   Cisco's don't support NWAY, so you'll have to set the Cisco switch port to
full duplex as well as the fxp.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project



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