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Date:      Fri, 31 Oct 1997 20:12:38 -0800 (PST)
From:      Tom <tom@sdf.com>
To:        David Greenman <dg@root.com>
Cc:        Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>, hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: fxp0 and full duplex 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.971031200952.11298E-100000@misery.sdf.com>
In-Reply-To: <199711010047.QAA25357@implode.root.com>

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On Fri, 31 Oct 1997, David Greenman wrote:

> >>   No, but trust me. :-)
> >>   Seriously, there really should be a way to sense the mode when it is in
> >>"autoselect" so that it can be displayed with ifconfig.
> >
> >Wow!  Thanks for the quick response... I have a feeling the card is in half
> >duplex since I am getting a steady stream of collisions (.4%) ... Its
> >connected to a Cisco 4700 FastE port via cross over cable taking a 5Mbit
> >ATM feed.  I would have thought the collisions would almost be nonexistant....
> 
>    Cisco's don't support NWAY, so you'll have to set the Cisco switch port to
> full duplex as well as the fxp.

  The 4700 is router, not a switch.  And yes, you will have to switch it
full duplex.

> -DG
> 
> David Greenman
> Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project

Tom (who is constanting annoyed that all 6 of the 10BT ports on the 4500
here are half-duplex only)






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