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Date:      Wed, 25 Jul 2012 17:25:25 +0000
From:      "Pieper, Jeffrey E" <jeffrey.e.pieper@intel.com>
To:        "freebsd-net@freebsd.org" <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: Enable/Disable flow control in FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <2A35EA60C3C77D438915767F458D65685052DEB4@ORSMSX101.amr.corp.intel.com>
In-Reply-To: <F42FA68E-E414-430F-9039-1FA863323486@gmail.com>
References:  <CAJJwNVJzb1x5QtLdfnmc4mo2--5MUmT2TBxifPV2dfUiyh09Sg@mail.gmail.com> <F42FA68E-E414-430F-9039-1FA863323486@gmail.com>

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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-net@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-net@freebsd.org] =
On Behalf Of Nikolay Denev
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 6:04 AM
To: m s
Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Enable/Disable flow control in FreeBSD

On Jul 25, 2012, at 11:47 AM, m s wrote:

> Hi all. I want to disbale flow control on network interfaces.I must do a
> test and I can't because flow control in enable.Is it enable as default?H=
ow
> I can disable it?
> Thanks
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>It depends on whether the driver supports it.
>The drivers that support it can control it with the ifconfig(8) media opti=
ons.
>You can try "ifconfig -m $your_interface" to see if there are any mediaopt=
s regarding flow control.

Intel devices use sysctl to enable/disable flow control:

#sysctl -a|grep fc

dev.em.X.fc:3
dev.igb.X.fc:3
dev.ix.X.fc:3

Hope this helps.



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