Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 02:03:42 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: <lneves@netcabo.pt>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Realtek blues Message-ID: <001d01c1039f$0f02a700$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <5e4701c102ea$fb928190$0814a8c0@netcabo.net>
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you don't need to put the IP address into there, you can simply do "ifconfig rl0 media XXX" in your favorite local startup config file. Any of the ifconfig options can be passed independently of each other. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of >lneves@netcabo.pt >Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 4:35 AM >To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Realtek blues > > > >Hello all, >I'm a newbie at FreeBSD and I'm having some trouble with my connections >speeds at home using FreeBSD 4.3 STABLE. >They are crawling ... with Linux I can get transfer speeds of about >85 Kbytes/sec, with FBSD I get about5 Kbytes/sec. >After searching the mailing list archive I track down the problem. >It seems to be related to the poor quality of my NIC. >The people who had this problem before me solved it by adding the following >line to rc.conf : > >ifconfig_rl0="inet <IP_ADDRESS> netmask <NETMASK> media 10baseT/UTP >mediaopt full-duplex up" > >This forces full-duplex and apparently it makes things works as they are >supposed to. >However my IP address is given to me by my ISP (trough DHCP) so it is >different each time I boot the PC. > >Is there some kind of workaround that I can do to solve this problem. > >Thanks in advance, > > >Luis Neves > >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
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