Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 08:49:06 -0500 From: Lane <lane@joeandlane.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pppOe 1000baseTX config Message-ID: <200507270849.07180.lane@joeandlane.com> In-Reply-To: <20050727093217.J4096@radium.cmbn.vangeyn.net> References: <NHBBKEEMKJDINKDJBJHGMEMPKAAD.john@day-light.com> <200507251556.26672.lane@joeandlane.com> <20050727093217.J4096@radium.cmbn.vangeyn.net>
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On Wednesday 27 July 2005 08:35, David van Geyn wrote: > You won't gain anything beyond 10baseT/UTP with your DSL line. Also > because it is autodetecting at 10baseT/UTP suggests that your DSL modem > only has 10baseT support built in to it, so you can't use anything higher. > > Same goes for your internetl interface re0. It it autodetecting 100baseTX > full-duplex which suggests that you have a 10/100baseTX switch. You can't > just make your NIC use gigabit if the other end doesn't support it. > > You won't gain any speed on the DSL side for sure. > > Generally speaking I find autodetect to work well most of the time. I have > rarely had a problem. > > David > FreeBSD Tutorials @ http://freebsd.vangeyn.net > > On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Lane wrote: > > Is there any speed advatage possible beyond the (10baseT/UTP)? If not > > then I guess it doesn't matter. > > > > The dsl modem is on bge0, which ifconfig reports as > > > > bge0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > > options=1a<TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING> > > inet6 fe80::211:11ff:febd:be3a%bge0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 > > ether 00:11:11:bd:be:3a > > media: Ethernet autoselect (10baseT/UTP) > > > > My expectation (hope) is to change the "10base" in the media: line to > > "100base" or "1000base" to gain any throughput advantage that is > > possible. > > > > The internal network is on re0, which ifconfig reports as > > > > re0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > > options=1b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING> > > inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255 > > inet6 fe80::240:f4ff:feb4:841a%re0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 > > ether 00:40:f4:b4:84:1a > > media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>) > > status: active > > > > I'd like the change the "100base" in the media: line to a "1000base", if > > possible. > > > > thanks for your eyes! > > > > lane Hey, thanks, David. So all I gotta do is (ugh) upgrade the hardware. At least on the internal side. lane
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