From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 17 13:45:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sttlpop5.sttl.uswest.net (sttlpop5.sttl.uswest.net [206.81.192.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A74CC37B84F for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 13:45:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wsanborn@uswest.net) Received: (qmail 27618 invoked by alias); 17 Feb 2000 21:45:52 -0000 Delivered-To: fixup-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG@fixme Received: (qmail 27583 invoked by uid 0); 17 Feb 2000 21:45:52 -0000 Received: from vdsl170.sttl.uswest.net (HELO uswest.net) (216.160.108.170) by sttlpop5.sttl.uswest.net with SMTP; 17 Feb 2000 21:45:52 -0000 Message-ID: <38AC69CF.EEE58BD4@uswest.net> Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 13:36:15 -0800 From: Bill Sanborn X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.36 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mitch Collinsworth Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Interesting network situation. Owners of Linksys hubs may want to read References: <200002172122.QAA76858@benge.graphics.cornell.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yep, that was it. The Windows (ugh...) box was automatically choosing full duplex, rather than half. Thanks for the tip!!!!! The collision light turns solid, but I do get my 2500k/sec transfer rate! Mitch Collinsworth wrote: > > What would be specific to FreeBSD that would cause the hub to go > >ick? The MTU is set to 1500 on both stations, and only TCP/IP is running > >on the OSR2 PC. The hub also verifies that both PCs have negotiated > >100Mb connections. I've forced the xl0 device to a 100baseTX connection, > >so I don't think it is autonegotiating itself to death. Another oddity > >is that when I'm transferring files from FBSD to the Windows station, > >using the hub, the collision light goes berserk. This seems like cruddy > >firmware to me. > > > > If anyone has any ideas I would be really interested in reading > >them. > > If I were to guess I'd say your NIC is getting set to full duplex. > Hubs are half-duplex only. (You can't do full-duplex in a collision > domain.) > > -Mitch To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message