Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 11:30:07 -0500 From: Barney Wolff <barney@tp.databus.com> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ipconfig: SIMPLEX or DUPLEX? Message-ID: <20010326113007.A40078@tp.databus.com> In-Reply-To: <200103261551.RAA53224@lurza.secnetix.de>; from olli@secnetix.de on Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 05:51:43PM %2B0200 References: <20010326101336.A39636@tp.databus.com> <200103261551.RAA53224@lurza.secnetix.de>
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There are 0 collisions on systems that have millions of packets sent in netstat -i. That's why I really believe they are in fdx, no matter what ifconfig says about it. Barney Wolff On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 05:51:43PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: > Barney Wolff <barney@tp.databus.com> wrote: > > Um, I have fxp0's on three machines. The embedded one correctly > > reports it's full-dux, but the other two just say 100baseTX. > > Then they're running at half-duplex only. > > > Both the switch and the performance suggest that they really > > are in duplex mode, so I've never bothered about it. > > Well, if there's no heavy load on the ethernet segment in > both directions, you might not notice that the duplex > setting is wrong. > > Look at the output of ``netstat -i''. The last column > (number of collisions) should be zero for a full-duplex > connection. I guess it is non-zero in your case, unless > there is really not much traffic on that line. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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