On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 01:20:14AM -0500, Matthew N. Dodd wrote: > This doesn't mean that the 3c589D will support Full-Duplex. > > I suspect that the windows driver offers that option (since it is probably > for whole family of cards) and doesn't do anything if the card doesn't > support it. > > Its likely that the 'fxp' card under windows is doing NWAY regardless of > control panel settings. Since the reported config is a cross-over > environment there isn't any way to tell for sure that windows runs the > 589D in full duplex mode.
Well, I guess there is a way. I did one more thing. I booted my desktop with Intel card into FreeBSD and commanded # ifconfig fxp0 media 10baseT/UTP mediaopt full-duplex Then I booted the noteboot into Win95 with full duplex enabled on 3com card. I started FTP transfer from FreeBSD to Win95 and got 500KBps. Then I commanded # ifconfig fxp0 media 10baseT/UTP and ran transfer again. I got only 10-13KBps then. Then I changed 3com to half duplex, Windows rebooted and I got another 500KBps FTP tranfser, while fxp0 is still in half duplex mode. Then I commanded again: # ifconfig fxp0 media 10baseT/UTP mediaopt full-duplex And now I see only 40KBps. I think it shows duplex mismatch. I believe fxp(4) set duplex correctly, so it must be that 3c589D changes duplex really. Eugene Grosbein To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
