From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 16 16:57:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from granite.sentex.net (granite.sentex.ca [199.212.134.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0E7314EB7 for ; Sat, 16 Oct 1999 16:57:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from ospf-mdt.sentex.net (ospf-mdt.sentex.net [205.211.164.81]) by granite.sentex.net (8.8.8/8.6.9) with SMTP id TAA05065; Sat, 16 Oct 1999 19:52:19 -0400 (EDT) From: mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa) To: ric@sinclairassoc.force9.co.uk (Richard Morte) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Full or Half Duplex NICs Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 23:52:19 GMT Message-ID: <38090eec.852179679@mail.sentex.net> References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent .99e/32.227 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 16 Oct 1999 17:27:09 -0400, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: >I have a network configured with the Netgear FA310TX ethernet cards and >Netgear 8 port hub. Cards are 10/100 and hub is 10/100 autosensing. On >bootup both FreeBSD machines default to: > > media: 100BaseTX (half-duplex) > >Would there be any advantage in running the entire network at full >duplex? If so, how do I specify this in ifconfig? If you can, run in full duplex, as you will practically have no collisions. However, I dont know if you card's drivers support it. Typically, its done with ifconfig. e.g. on the Intel cards, its ifconfig fxp0 media 100baseTX media-opt full-duplex ---Mike Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) Sentex Communications Corp, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message