From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 19 0:52:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from venus.GAIANET.NET (venus.GAIANET.NET [207.211.200.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C14B1501A for ; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 00:52:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vince@venus.GAIANET.NET) Received: from localhost (vince@localhost) by venus.GAIANET.NET (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA26810; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 00:50:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vince@venus.GAIANET.NET) Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 00:50:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Vincent Poy To: Tim Walker Cc: Jeff Ito , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: de0 duplex... In-Reply-To: <3791CD1A.C88129F0@cyberghost.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 18 Jul 1999, Tim Walker wrote: Tim, > Jeff, > > This may or may not be the problem, but some (3 Com comes to mind) > switches don't always recognize full duplex cards correctly. If you put a hub > between the Nic and the Switch you may be able to trick the Switch into > running correctly at full duplex. Hmmm, if there is a hub between the NIC and switch, isn't the link going to be half duplex since the hub will make it send to more than one device. I thought for Full Duplex to work, it has to be a dedicated device and the data isn't shared. Cheers, Vince - vince@MCESTATE.COM - vince@GAIANET.NET ________ __ ____ Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] GaiaNet Corporation - M & C Estate / / / / | / | __] ] Beverly Hills, California USA 90210 / / / / / |/ / | __] ] HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message