Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 20:07:07 -0400 (EDT) From: Bosko Milekic <bmilekic@dsuper.net> To: Erick Mechler <emechler@sendmail.com> Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: de problems Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008282006010.8246-100000@jehovah.technokratis.com> In-Reply-To: <20000828142833.M14442@sendmail.com>
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Hi,
Yeah, the cards should work fine in full-duplex. How are you
connecting your machines? Through a 10/100 hub, a switch, or what?
Cheers,
Bosko.
On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Erick Mechler wrote:
> Howdy.
>
> I'm having some troubles with the Digital 21143 Fast Ethernet cards I have.
> They're 4-port cards, and I have four of them (all total, I have de0
> through de11). Here's the output of "ifconfig de9":
>
> de9: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> inet 10.210.100.93 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.210.100.255
> ether 00:c0:95:e0:4a:a9
> media: autoselect (10baseT/UTP) status: active
> supported media: autoselect 100baseTX <full-duplex> 100baseTX
> 10baseT/UTP <full-duplex> 10baseT/UTP
>
> Based on this, it appears that I can run these cards at 100baseTX
> full-duplex. However, the autosense on bootup assigns (as you can see
> above) 10baseT/UTP to the cards.
>
> I have tried manually setting the media to 100baseTX full-duplex, but it
> doesn't fully work. After setting de9 to 100baseTX full-duplex I'm able to
> ping the IP assigned to de9, but I can't reach any other machines on the
> de9 network.
>
> My question to the list is whether or not anybody has gotten these cards to
> work on 100MB. I'm running 3.5-STABLE as of 16 Aug. Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards,
> Erick
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