From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 20 23:08:28 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA29518 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 23:08:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from rainfall.mwd.dst.ca.us (rainfall.mwd.dst.ca.us [144.166.176.177]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA29513 for ; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 23:08:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from 144.166.163.33 ([144.166.163.33]) by rainfall.mwd.dst.ca.us (8.6.8.1/8.6.6) with SMTP id XAA10638 for ; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 23:06:46 -0800 Message-Id: <199603210706.XAA10638@rainfall.mwd.dst.ca.us> Date: Wed, 20 Mar 96 23:08:05 0000 From: Suren X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.2 (Windows; U; 16bit) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Ifconfig Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I was helping out a friend with his FreeBSD network setup in a small Lan environment and noticed that the output from the "ifconfig" command was showing . He was complaining about a slow throughput and being rather new to FreeBSD but not new to Unix in general, I assumed that was the problem. However, it turned out that his IRQ settings were not matching with the Kernel, and once I corrected it the speed was acceptable telneting the the FreeBSD box. Anyway, I am curious what does the SIMPLEX mode mean and how can it be turned off.