Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 22:36:45 -0700 From: Chris Fedde <chris@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: "Joe & Fhe Barbish" <barbish@a1poweruser.com> Cc: "FBSD Questions" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: ifconfig Nic card default mode? Message-ID: <200201180536.g0I5aj895315@fedde.littleton.co.us> In-Reply-To: <LPBBIGIAAKKEOEJOLEGOIEOECMAA.barbish@a1poweruser.com>
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On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 20:44:27 -0500 "Joe & Fhe Barbish" wrote:
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| This is a ifconfig -a display of my Nic card in the server
| connected to the Lan.
|
| xl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
| inet 10.0.10.2 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 10.255.255.255
| ether 00:01:02:2f:c3:00
| media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
| status: active
|
| FTP statistics show this Nic outputting at 73 KBps while the
| Nic card in the only machine on the lan is outputting at 19MBps.
| That means the server Nic card is receiving much much faster that it
| is sending out. The conclusion is that no matter what the ifconfig
| says about the server Nic card it is not sending at 100baset
| full-duplex mode by default.
|
| How do I force it into 100baseT mode so FBSD knows about it?
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That data confuses me. If there are only two stations on the wire
where is the data going? It does not make sense that one station
maxes transmit at 73KBytes/sec while the other transmits at
19MBytes/sec. The data has to be going somewhere. I'm misunderstanding
something in your description.
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Chris Fedde
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