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Date:      Mon, 8 Jan 2001 12:16:14 +1030 (CST)
From:      Chris Foote <chris@zeus.foote.com.au>
To:        "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" <jeroen@vangelderen.org>
Cc:        <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Intel PRO/100+ driver or hardware?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.31.0101081207360.72666-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <128310000.978895262@grolsch.ai>

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On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Jeroen C. van Gelderen wrote:

> I noticed my problem when I tried to upgrade the 4.0-STABLE box with an NFS
> installworld. It would consistently hang after a short while. Further
> investigation showed that *every* TCP connection to or from this box stalls
> after transferring somewhere between 1MB and 20MB of data. (Tested with
> NFS, scp, etc). As the machine is handling small transactions most of the
> time I hadn't noticed this, until now :-(
>
> <snip>
>
> My tentative conclusion is that the Intel NICs don't work with my hub, even
> though they should. As my hub seems to work with other cards, I'm
> suspecting an Intel PRO/100+ specific problem. I can't determine whether it
> is a hardware or a software problem though :-(

These symptoms sound like they're caused by duplex mismatch problems.

Try forcing half or full-duplex options and test again - i.e. use
media and mediaopt flags in your /etc/rc.conf.  Available values
for these are in `man fxp`.

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