Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 18:37:20 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> To: Duke Normandin <01031149@3web.net> Cc: Freebsd Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Very slow Ethernet performance Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0108181835150.16969-100000@ren.sasknow.com> In-Reply-To: <20010818091752.A66567@mandy.rockingd.calgary.ab.ca>
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Duke Normandin wrote to Freebsd Questions: > > It depends on your network card. Try ifconfig -m to see what your nic > > supports. For fxp, this is what I add to the end of all of my rc.conf > > entries: > > > > media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex > > Is the '-m' flag new in the 4.x incarnations? I se that 'ifconfig -m' > is not supported on my 3.3R box. Or, just look at the man page for your network interface (drop the node number... eg, man fxp) for the list of media types the driver supports. Your NIC may not support all of the media types the (more generic) driver supports, there's usually no harm in trying ;-) - Ryan -- Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> Network Administrator, Accounts SaskNow Technologies - http://www.sasknow.com #106-380 3120 8th St E - Saskatoon, SK - S7H 0W2 Tel: 306-664-3600 Fax: 306-664-1161 Saskatoon Toll-Free: 877-727-5669 (877-SASKNOW) North America To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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