Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 21:01:30 -0500 From: E.J.Cerejo <ecerejo@zapo.net> To: jholland@cs.selu.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: ecerejo@zapo.net Subject: Re: Full-Duplex or Half-Duplex Message-ID: <20020528005700.4808C3C1D6@server10.safepages.com>
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I was able to change it Full-Duplex but it still transfers at very slow speeds it didn't make any difference. > >Subject: Re: Full-Duplex or Half-Duplex > From: Jason P Holland <jholland@cs.selu.edu> > Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 18:52:07 -0500 (CDT) > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Cc: "E.J.Cerejo" <ecerejo@zapo.net> > > >> I'm getting very slow transfer speeds using psftp that came with PuTTy >> between a FBSD box and Win2k laptop and I'm using a crossover cable. I >> can't figure out why! Both NICs are 100M, the one in the FBSD box is an >> Intel and the one in the laptop is an IBM cardbus. If I boot into win2k >> on the FBSD box I get lightenning speeds though. Not too long ago >> someone replied to an email of mine saying that both NICs should be set >> to Full-Duplex, now I was able to set this on my laptop under win2k but >> how do you find out if the FBSD machine is set to Full-Duplex? If not >> set to this how do you change it to Full-Duplex? >> > >yes, this is likely the cause of your slowdown. are you showing a lot of >collisions?? netstat -in will show you. duplex settings for your nic can >been seen using ifconfig. just look at the media: line for your >particular device. as for forcing the card to do 100FD, you can set this > ># ifconfig xl0 media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex > >for an xl0 interface. the man page for the particular driver your using >should be more help. after testing and figuring out what works, you can >add these settings to your rc.conf so they show up next reboot. hope this >helps. > >jason > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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