From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jul 18 1: 3:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from verdi.nethelp.no (verdi.nethelp.no [158.36.41.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4E13414BE0 for ; Sun, 18 Jul 1999 01:03:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sthaug@nethelp.no) Received: (qmail 65882 invoked by uid 1001); 18 Jul 1999 08:02:53 +0000 (GMT) To: vince@venus.GAIANET.NET Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: poor ethernet performance? From: sthaug@nethelp.no In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 18 Jul 1999 09:58:12 +0200 (CEST)" References: X-Mailer: Mew version 1.05+ on Emacs 19.34.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 10:02:52 +0200 Message-ID: <65880.932284972@verdi.nethelp.no> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Ah, you have a point there. The problem is we have so many wires, > > we don't know which port goes to what on the Catalyst so we had it on > > autodetect and FreeBSD does boot up with fxp0 showing 100Mbps Full Duplex. > > > Cisco's can show you which mac-adresses are on which port. Probably > Catalyst's can too. > > Or have somebody pull the cable in and out of the pc, and watch for the > light go on and off on the switch :-) A combination of those two would probably be useful. Then make a note of the port configuration, and *keep it updated*. This is essential for a hassle-free switched Ethernet environment. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message