From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Oct 7 16:50:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA25519 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 16:50:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pegasus.com (pegasus.com [206.127.225.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA25490 for ; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 16:50:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from richard@pegasus.com) Received: by pegasus.com (8.6.8/PEGASUS-2.2) id NAA20011; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 13:50:18 -1000 Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 13:50:18 -1000 From: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) Message-Id: <199810072350.NAA20011@pegasus.com> X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.5 10/14/92) To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Full duplex ethernet Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Which ether-card drivers currently support full duplex? Recently, someone here said that full duplex for 10Base-T was a waste of time. But after some research it's beginning to look like that's not true at all. 10BT switches are available, and cost way less than 100BT switches. I've gotten reports from several places saying that in practice, switched full-duplex 10BT is faster than half-duplex hub-based 100BT. Since 100BT switches aren't really affordable yet, full duplex 10BT sounds like a winner. Do any of the 10/100 cards support full duplex in their 10BT mode? Thanks Richard To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message