From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 27 17:57:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from server10.safepages.com (server10.safepages.com [216.127.146.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62E3937B405 for ; Mon, 27 May 2002 17:57:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.acer-access.com (0-1pool56-92.nas40.philadelphia1.pa.us.da.qwest.net [65.129.56.92]) by server10.safepages.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 4808C3C1D6; Tue, 28 May 2002 00:57:00 +0000 (GMT) X-Mailer: Ultrafunk Popcorn release 1.20 (04-Apr-2002) X-URL: http://www.ultrafunk.com/products/popcorn Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Priority: 3 Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 21:01:30 -0500 From: E.J.Cerejo To: jholland@cs.selu.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: ecerejo@zapo.net Subject: Re: Full-Duplex or Half-Duplex Reply-To: ecerejo@zapo.net Organization: N/A Message-Id: <20020528005700.4808C3C1D6@server10.safepages.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 18:52:07 -0500 (CDT) > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Cc: "E.J.Cerejo" > > >> 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