From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 10 9:39:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-149-77.mmcable.com [24.27.149.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 036A937B503 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 09:39:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 50023 invoked by uid 100); 10 Oct 2000 16:39:37 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14819.17993.590268.201193@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 11:39:37 -0500 (CDT) To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Network trickles ...... In-Reply-To: <20001010093543.R272@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <8049746@toto.iv> <14819.17289.859838.366697@guru.mired.org> <20001010093543.R272@fw.wintelcom.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alfred Perlstein writes: > * Mike Meyer [001010 09:28] wrote: > > Alfred Perlstein writes: > > > If you have a hub then you'll want to toggle it to half-duplex, if > > > you have a switch, most likely full duplex. > > Could you provide more information about that? Or a pointer to where I > > can educate myself? > The manual page for you ethernet driver "man rl" and ifconfig "man > ifconfig" Sorry, I wasn't quite clear. I know how to set these things if I need to. I'm curious about why I would want to use half duplex for a hub vs. full duplex for a switch vs. ??? for two machines talking via an X-over cable. Thanx,