From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 10 10:17: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86C2037B66E for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 10:17:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e9AHH5b17735; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 10:17:05 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 10:17:05 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Mike Meyer Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: ethernet config (Was: Network trickles ......) Message-ID: <20001010101705.X272@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <8049746@toto.iv> <14819.17289.859838.366697@guru.mired.org> <20001010093543.R272@fw.wintelcom.net> <14819.17993.590268.201193@guru.mired.org> <20001010095834.T272@fw.wintelcom.net> <14819.19754.625591.220556@guru.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <14819.19754.625591.220556@guru.mired.org>; from mwm@mired.org on Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 12:08:58PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Mike Meyer [001010 10:09] wrote: > Alfred Perlstein writes: > > The most switches can auto-negotiate so that if you're set up > > incorrectly you should be ok, however the real killer is trying to > > use full-duplex on a hub, which never seems to work. > > What's the failure in that case? Just slow? Or something deadly? Degraded performance, ranging from packetloss to being unable to achieve any sort of packet transmission/recieving. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message