From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Nov 1 00:35:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA08147 for hardware-outgoing; Sat, 1 Nov 1997 00:35:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware) Received: from MindBender.serv.net (root@mindbender.serv.net [205.153.153.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA08137 for ; Sat, 1 Nov 1997 00:35:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from michaelv@MindBender.serv.net) Received: from localhost.HeadCandy.com (michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1]) by MindBender.serv.net (8.8.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA08688; Sat, 1 Nov 1997 00:35:19 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199711010835.AAA08688@MindBender.serv.net> X-Authentication-Warning: MindBender.serv.net: michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Petri Helenius cc: Mike Tancsa , dg@root.com, hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fxp0 and full duplex In-reply-to: Your message of Sat, 01 Nov 97 10:03:51 +0200. <199711010803.KAA14082@silver.sms.fi> Date: Sat, 01 Nov 1997 00:35:19 -0800 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" 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. 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? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@MindBender.serv.net Contract software development for Windows NT, Windows 95 and Unix. Windows NT and Unix server development in C++ and C. --< Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x >-- NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, Atari 68k, HP300, Sun3, Sun4/4c/4m, DEC MIPS, DEC Alpha, PC532, VAX, MVME68k, arm32... NetBSD ports in progress: PICA, others... -----------------------------------------------------------------------------