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Date:      Mon, 31 Mar 2003 17:10:30 +0200
From:      "L. Jankok" <lj@2u2.nu>
To:        Toni Schmidbauer <toni@stderror.at>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Interface collisions
Message-ID:  <20030331151030.GA3637@atlantis.local.net>
In-Reply-To: <20030331145541.GD333@devil.stderror.at>
References:  <3.0.5.32.20030331082034.01414bf8@sage-one.net> <20030331145541.GD333@devil.stderror.at>

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collisions means half duplex
if you don't want them, do something like this with your fbsd box;
        #in rc.conf
        ifconfig_bge0="inet 192.168.141.90  netmask 255.255.255.0 media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex"
and your switch must be set on 100 fdx also.


On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 04:55:41PM +0200, Toni Schmidbauer wrote:
:On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 08:20:34AM -0600, Jack L. Stone wrote:
:> For the first time within the past few days, I've noticed collisions being
:> the switch or the NIC is the culprit, so not sure which component may need
:
:you should also check if the nic and switch are both running the
:same speed, or if autonegotiation is enabled. in the company i am
:working for, we are always having problems if the switch runs 
:100fdx and the nic auto-neg or vice versa. on cisco switches its
:generally recommended to disable auto neg for servers.
:
:toni
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