From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Nov 1 00:04:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA06818 for hardware-outgoing; Sat, 1 Nov 1997 00:04:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware) Received: from silver.sms.fi (silver.sms.fi [194.111.122.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA06811 for ; Sat, 1 Nov 1997 00:04:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pete@silver.sms.fi) Received: (from pete@localhost) by silver.sms.fi (8.8.7/8.7.3) id KAA14082; Sat, 1 Nov 1997 10:03:51 +0200 (EET) Date: Sat, 1 Nov 1997 10:03:51 +0200 (EET) Message-Id: <199711010803.KAA14082@silver.sms.fi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Petri Helenius To: Mike Tancsa Cc: dg@root.com, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fxp0 and full duplex In-Reply-To: <3.0.2.32.19971031193820.0266e950@sentex.net> References: <199711010036.QAA25210@implode.root.com> <3.0.2.32.19971031193820.0266e950@sentex.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.22 under 19.15p7 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Mike Tancsa writes: > > > > No, but trust me. :-) > > Seriously, there really should be a way to sense the mode when it is in > >"autoselect" so that it can be displayed with ifconfig. > > Wow! Thanks for the quick response... I have a feeling the card is in half > duplex since I am getting a steady stream of collisions (.4%) ... Its > connected to a Cisco 4700 FastE port via cross over cable taking a 5Mbit > ATM feed. I would have thought the collisions would almost be nonexistant.... > With OS's with good IP stacks, like FreeBSD and some of the other unixen, you usually hit the second packet in a window coming in with first reply packet. That accounts for about 1% collisions even with fairly low speeds. Downgrading to any M$ OS would "fix" the problem. Pete