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From: bag@sinbin.demos.su (Alex G. Bulushev)
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Subject: Re: Q about 100Mb ether cards
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Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 16:18:27 +0300 (MSK)
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In-Reply-To: <199703101424.GAA17192@root.com> from "David Greenman" at Mar 10, 97 06:24:45 am
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>    I want to support full duplex in the fxp (Pro/100B) driver, but I haven't
> been able to get it to work. The Pro/100B is well supported; it's what I'm
> using in wcarchive and I haven't had any problems. It consumes about half
> the CPU time that the de driver does and has about the same level of
> performance (actually slightly better than the DEC chip).

as we found for Intel EE pro/100 in fbsd2.2-G full duplex not supported ...
in half duplex mode speed up to 4 MByte/sec (via ftp  fbsd<->solaris[sparc])

one problem: soft/hard reset of HUB lead to card freezing (driver?)
after reboot all ok ...
HUB: SynOptics 28115

  Alex.

> 
> -DG
> 
> David Greenman
> Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
>