Date: Sat, 01 Nov 1997 00:35:19 -0800 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@MindBender.serv.net> To: Petri Helenius <pete@sms.fi> Cc: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>, dg@root.com, hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fxp0 and full duplex Message-ID: <199711010835.AAA08688@MindBender.serv.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of Sat, 01 Nov 97 10:03:51 %2B0200. <199711010803.KAA14082@silver.sms.fi>
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>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.
Do you know, for a fact, that MS IP stacks (from Win95 thru NT Server)
are significantly less efficient than the BSD variety? Or are you
just slamming MS for the hell of it?
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