* Bill Paul ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [990716 13:58]:
> > I have two freeBSD machines one 3.1 -STABLE and the other 3.2 -STABLE,
>
> 3.2-STABLE *FROM WHEN*. What date does it say when you run uname -a!
FreeBSD TWEAK.HOME 3.1-STABLE FreeBSD 3.1-STABLE #3: Wed Jun 30 11:00:45 IST 199
9 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/TWEAK i386
FreeBSD MANSON.HOME 3.2-STABLE FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE #0: Thu Jun 24 20:54:25 IST
1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/MANSON i386
I was unsure when i wrote that in the first place so I even checked.
> You changed out the "hub" just because one FTP transfer didn't go as
> fast as you would have liked? Did you reset the interfaces (or reboot
> the machines) when you reconnected them?
I changed the hub because I was planning on doing so for some time anyway, I also
rebooted the machines.
>
> It sounds a lot to me like you have the duplex modes on the cards set
> wrong, or that the cards are autonegotiating wrong (which is not
> impossible -- some switches that have full duplex ports don't do NWAY
> correctly). The cards must agree with their link partners: if you have
> them plugged into full duplex ports, then they must also be set to full
> duplex. If the cards are plugged into half duplex ports, then they also
> have to be half duplex.
>
> Now you're going to ask me how to set the duplex mode on the interface
> because why read the instructions when you can just ask somebody "on
> the web" instead, right? Grrr.
>
> # ifconfig xl0 media 10baseT/UTP mediaopt full-duplex
> # ifconfig xl0 media 10baseT/UTP mediaopt half-duplex
That worked, except after a few minutes i got an error on TWEAK reading "xl0: watchdog
timeout" seeing as your allready reading this have you anyideas?
>
> Er. I don't get it. You're implying that the bug fairy just visited
> you one night while you were asleep. This doesn't happen. If you're
> having trouble now and you weren't before, then you changed something.
> Stands to reason, doesn't it?
Indeed it does, I noticed some slight network performance problems before, but nothing
this severe, Also fariys only tend to visit me after too much Gin, which I havent
indulged in for quiet some time.
Thanks for your help Bill, and also Andy who followed up the thread.
-Emil
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