Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 16:23:01 +0100 From: Richard Morte <ric@sinclairassoc.force9.co.uk> To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Full or Half Duplex NICs Message-ID: <3809E9D5.93A51BBB@sinclairassoc.force9.co.uk> References: <MAIL3808EDA1.8725A42B@sinclairassoc.force9.co.uk> <38090eec.852179679@mail.sentex.net>
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Mike Tancsa wrote: Mike, Thank you for your reply. I am not sure if the Hub (Netgear DS 108) supports Full Duplex - it may only support half. I have checked the docs that came with the hub, but it mentions nothing about full/half duplex. I guess I will have to wait till after the w/e to contact Tech Support @ Netgear to find out. If the hub does support Full duplex I will certainly give it a try. Regards, Ric > > 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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