Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 15:15:05 +0100 From: Alexander Haderer <alexander.haderer@charite.de> To: Olivier Dony <olivier@blacktrap.net>, FreeBSD-questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: rl(4): autoselect/manual media == no carrier at boot time? Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.1.20030325150712.01a13540@postamt1.charite.de> In-Reply-To: <20030325140113.GA7586@vega.blacktrap.net>
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At 15:01 25.03.2003 +0100, Olivier Dony wrote:
>Hello, that's me again :)
>[... realtek has no carrier...]
>
>My question is, is it possible that setting the media to 100baseTX
><full-duplex> could cause problems for carrier detection at boot time? Or is
>my ISP lying and they unplugged the network just right during the kernel panic
>and only plugged it back after a while? This doesn't sound likely...
>I do not feel like rebooting again right now just to see if using autoselect
>works, I'd rather not have to call them today to fix it once more ;-)
Sounds like that at the other end of the patchcable autoselect still is
active and is unable to agree with the "fixed media" realtek card. So I
would suggest to check the router/switch at the other end of the patchcable
and to also switch off autoselect there. tcpblast from the ports is a handy
tool to check tcp troughput. To be on the safe side you should tcpblast in
both directions. Expect about 10 Mbytes/s with no other network load.
Btw.: I have no experience with Realtek hardware, so there may be other
things here causing the error.
with best regards
Alexander
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Alexander Haderer Charite Berlin - Germany
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