Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 03:49:04 -0500 From: "Jon Noack" <noackjr@compgeek.com> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?David_Sieb=F6rger?= <drs@rucus.ru.ac.za>, "Mindaugas" <mindugas77@delfi.lt> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: question about FTP Message-ID: <NFBBIJDHKLKEJHKFMLBHMEADCCAA.noackjr@compgeek.com> In-Reply-To: <20020626102445.A59390@rucus.ru.ac.za>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> Of which, the Realtek 8139s are some of the worst. I've experienced > just this problem with them on a number of occasions. I've experienced this with 3Com and Intel cards as well. I traced it to a Kingston switch and (in another situation) a Linksys switch, both of which were supposed to be 10/100 autosensing switches. > For me, running "ifconfig rl0 media 10baseT/UTP" to force the card to > 10Mbps half-duplex fixed the problem. To make the change permanent, > add "media 10baseT/UTP" to your ifconfig_rl0 line in rc.conf. This worked in both situations, but changing out the switch (sometimes for another of the same brand but different model) solved the problem as well. You get what you pay for... Jon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?NFBBIJDHKLKEJHKFMLBHMEADCCAA.noackjr>