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Date:      Wed, 22 Sep 1999 17:26:27 -0400
From:      Mitch Collinsworth <mkc@Graphics.Cornell.EDU>
To:        "Eric J. Schwertfeger" <ejs@bfd.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: how to set fxp0 to half-duplex? [was: nfs tuning] 
Message-ID:  <199909222126.AA279575587@broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 22 Sep 1999 14:03:56 PDT." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9909221400510.26362-100000@harlie.bfd.com> 

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>> I never trust auto-sensing. Tell both ends what they are configured for.
>
>Good advice, but when problems occur, try turning off auto-sensing.

That's what he was said.


>We've
>got a 10/100Mbit switch in the office that if you hook up a computer
>that doesn't auto-sense but forces 100Mbit, either full or half duplex,
>the throughput drops into the 10-50KB/sec range.
>
>Of course, in this case, the advice can't be exactly followed, because the
>switch can only auto-sense, it can't be configured.

If your switch will only auto-sense and can't be locked down, and the
computer will not auto-sense, then according to David's message you
can expect the worst.  And it sounds like that's just what you got.
Throw out that garbage [switch?] and get a real one.

[Do people really make unconfigurable switches?  Or is this really a hub?]

-Mitch



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