Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 10:17:05 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: ethernet config (Was: Network trickles ......) Message-ID: <20001010101705.X272@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <14819.19754.625591.220556@guru.mired.org>; from mwm@mired.org on Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 12:08:58PM -0500 References: <8049746@toto.iv> <14819.17289.859838.366697@guru.mired.org> <20001010093543.R272@fw.wintelcom.net> <14819.17993.590268.201193@guru.mired.org> <20001010095834.T272@fw.wintelcom.net> <14819.19754.625591.220556@guru.mired.org>
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* Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> [001010 10:09] wrote: > Alfred Perlstein writes: > > The most switches can auto-negotiate so that if you're set up > > incorrectly you should be ok, however the real killer is trying to > > use full-duplex on a hub, which never seems to work. > > What's the failure in that case? Just slow? Or something deadly? Degraded performance, ranging from packetloss to being unable to achieve any sort of packet transmission/recieving. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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