From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 16 17:13:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.tn.home.com (ha1.rdc1.tn.home.com [24.2.7.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D568D14C8E for ; Sat, 16 Oct 1999 17:13:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from montana1@home.com) Received: from camelot ([24.6.55.158]) by mail.rdc1.tn.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with SMTP id <19991017001308.LFHL9798.mail.rdc1.tn.home.com@camelot>; Sat, 16 Oct 1999 17:13:08 -0700 Reply-To: From: "Mark Einreinhof" To: "Mike Tancsa" , "Richard Morte" Cc: Subject: RE: Full or Half Duplex NICs Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 19:12:03 -0500 Message-ID: <000b01bf1834$3d4ebe80$0201010a@cmr.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <38090eec.852179679@mail.sentex.net> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Also, the hub needs to support full duplex. My hub is 100 but doesn't support full duplex. -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Mike Tancsa Sent: Saturday, October 16, 1999 6:52 PM To: Richard Morte Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Full or Half Duplex NICs 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message