From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 12 4:57:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.netcologne.de (mail2.netcologne.de [194.8.194.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 643FE37B424 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 04:57:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bagabeedaboo.security.at12.de (dial-213-168-64-175.netcologne.de [213.168.64.175]) by mail2.netcologne.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA18131; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 13:56:40 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (localhost.security.at12.de [127.0.0.1]) by bagabeedaboo.security.at12.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e8CBuVw02632; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 13:56:31 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from pherman@frenchfries.net) Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 13:56:31 +0200 (CEST) From: Paul Herman To: Peter Salvage Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ifconfig question In-Reply-To: <016001c01bc6$f0bf0920$0200a8c0@ait.co.za> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Peter Salvage wrote: > Since switching it back on, the hubs that both nic's are connected > to, show collision lights for those ports only, permanently. In > other words, the collision lights are on ALL the time. My concern > is that I have a media mis-match, as all hubs are half-duplex by > design and both cards are running full-duplex. You can try to force the cards into half-duplex by doing: ifconfig rl0 inet x.x.x.x media 100baseTX mediaopt half-duplex Of course, if you only have a 10Mbit network, then use 10baseT/UTP instead. > Looking through the man page for ifconfig, it appears I need to do the > following for both interfaces: > ifconfig rl0 media 10baseT/UTP > ifconfig rl1 media 10baseT/UTP > > Am I correct? Will I lose the IP addresses and/or other parameters by typing > the above commands in? No, the you won't lose the IP addresses, but you might lose network connectivity if 10baseT/UTP isn't correct! Best to practice on the console first (if possible), until you have a good feeling about ifconfig and the physical network itself. -Paul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message