Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 23:52:19 GMT 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 Message-ID: <38090eec.852179679@mail.sentex.net> In-Reply-To: <MAIL3808EDA1.8725A42B@sinclairassoc.force9.co.uk> References: <MAIL3808EDA1.8725A42B@sinclairassoc.force9.co.uk>
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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
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