From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 12 11:15:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [63.93.4.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C1B037B400 for ; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 11:15:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost.wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.12.1/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g3CIFluF004191; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 12:15:47 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.12.1/8.12.1/Submit) with ESMTP id g3CIFkcS004188; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 12:15:46 -0600 (MDT)?g (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 12:15:46 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: Anthony Atkielski Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Variable Ethernet speeds between machines? In-Reply-To: <009f01c1e216$44a311a0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > I have three machines on my LAN: a FreeBSD 4.3 server, a Windows NT Server > desktop, and a Windows XP desktop. Each of the machines has a 10/100 Mbps > full-duplex Ethernet NIC. The machines are connected via CAT5 coax to a > 3Com Ethernet switch that is supposed to detect the cable type (crossover or > straight) and speed (10 or 100) automagically. The mystery I encounter is ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Autodetection is notoriously faulty. Set each machine explicitly to 100. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message