Re: NFE setting manually to 1000baseT and half duplex

2008-06-08 Thread Jon Radel
Wojciech Puchar wrote: Even if you do have hardware that supports half-duplex gigabit ethernet on both ends, the need to do carrier extension for any frame shorter than 512 bytes so that CSMA/CD actually works on a reasonable sized cable, does horrible things to your throughput if you'v

Re: NFE setting manually to 1000baseT and half duplex

2008-06-08 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Even if you do have hardware that supports half-duplex gigabit ethernet on both ends, the need to do carrier extension for any frame shorter than 512 bytes so that CSMA/CD actually works on a reasonable sized cable, does horrible things to your throughput if you've got lots of small frames

Re: NFE setting manually to 1000baseT and half duplex

2008-06-08 Thread Jon Radel
Gelsema, P (Patrick) - FreeBSD wrote: Hi List, I am using the nfe driver on Freebsd 7.0R and I am unable to change the NIC driver manually to 1000baseT with half-duplex. I believe I am not getting the max out of my network connection and want to see if changing the duplex will help. Even if

Re: NFE setting manually to 1000baseT and half duplex

2008-06-08 Thread Matthew Seaman
Erik Trulsson wrote: (IIRC a switch or NIC that is set to auto-negotiate, but where the negotiation fails (possibly because the other end is not set to auto-negotiate) will usually revert to 10Mbps/half-duplex, i.e. the original, slowest, Ethernet speed.) 100Mb half-duplex is the default

Re: NFE setting manually to 1000baseT and half duplex

2008-06-08 Thread Erik Trulsson
n of the media type and options. > > 10baseT/UTP Set 10Mbps operation. > > 100baseTXSet 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation. > > 1000baseTSet 1000Mbps (Gigabit Ethernet) operation (recent models > only). > > The nfe driver supports

Re: NFE setting manually to 1000baseT and half duplex

2008-06-08 Thread Gelsema, P (Patrick) - FreeBSD
Ethernet) operation (recent models only). The nfe driver supports the following media options: half-duplex Force half duplex operation. full-duplex Force full duplex operation. Also for some strange reason I lost a couple of ip aliases and my default route

Re: NFE setting manually to 1000baseT and half duplex

2008-06-07 Thread Michael Toth
Hi, You should be doing # ifconfig nfe0 10.202.77.110 media 1000baseTX<--- note the 'X' Gelsema, P (Patrick) - FreeBSD wrote: Hi List, I am using the nfe driver on Freebsd 7.0R and I am unable to change the NIC driver manually to 1000baseT with half-duplex. I bel

NFE setting manually to 1000baseT and half duplex

2008-06-07 Thread Gelsema, P (Patrick) - FreeBSD
Hi List, I am using the nfe driver on Freebsd 7.0R and I am unable to change the NIC driver manually to 1000baseT with half-duplex. I believe I am not getting the max out of my network connection and want to see if changing the duplex will help. hulk# ifconfig nfe0 10.202.77.110 media 100baseTX

Re: Switching between half-duplex and full duplex

2007-06-04 Thread Pang
Rudolf Cejka wrote: Pang wrote (2007/06/03): I have just installed FreeBSD and found that the nic em0 is set to half-duplex only. Could anyone tell me how I can switch it to full-duplex? em0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 options=b inet 172.16.0.2 netmask 0xfffc broadcast

Re: Switching between half-duplex and full duplex

2007-06-03 Thread Rudolf Cejka
Pang wrote (2007/06/03): > I have just installed FreeBSD and found that the nic em0 is set to > half-duplex only. Could anyone tell me how I can switch it to full-duplex? > em0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 >options=b >inet 172.16.0.2 netmask 0xfffc broadcast 172.16.0.1

Re: Switching between half-duplex and full duplex

2007-06-03 Thread Javier Henderson
On Sun, 03 Jun 2007 11:46:15 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > At 07:01 AM 6/3/2007, you wrote: >> I have just installed FreeBSD and found that the nic em0 is set to >> half-duplex only. Could anyone tell me how I can switch it to >> full-duplex? >>media: E

Re: Switching between half-duplex and full duplex

2007-06-03 Thread r17fbsd
At 07:01 AM 6/3/2007, you wrote: I have just installed FreeBSD and found that the nic em0 is set to half-duplex only. Could anyone tell me how I can switch it to full-duplex? media: Ethernet autoselect (10baseT/UTP ) You should be more concerned that it is only at 10Mb. I'm not

Re: Switching between half-duplex and full duplex

2007-06-03 Thread Mike Bristow
Pieter de Goeje wrote: On Sunday 03 June 2007, Pang wrote: Hello, I have just installed FreeBSD and found that the nic em0 is set to half-duplex only. Could anyone tell me how I can switch it to full-duplex? em0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 options=b inet 172.16.0.2 netmask

Re: Switching between half-duplex and full duplex

2007-06-03 Thread Gelsema, P \(Patrick\)
On Sun, June 3, 2007 13:01, Pang wrote: > Hello, > I have just installed FreeBSD and found that the nic em0 is set to > half-duplex only. Could anyone tell me how I can switch it to full-duplex? man ifconfig -> how to use the ifconfig tool man em -> available options to t

Re: Switching between half-duplex and full duplex

2007-06-03 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Sunday 03 June 2007, Pang wrote: > Hello, > I have just installed FreeBSD and found that the nic em0 is set to > half-duplex only. Could anyone tell me how I can switch it to full-duplex? > > em0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 > options=b > inet 172.16.0.2 netmask

Switching between half-duplex and full duplex

2007-06-03 Thread Pang
Hello, I have just installed FreeBSD and found that the nic em0 is set to half-duplex only. Could anyone tell me how I can switch it to full-duplex? em0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 options=b inet 172.16.0.2 netmask 0xfffc broadcast 172.16.0.1 ether XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX

Re: Half-Duplex

2007-05-22 Thread Vince
Vince wrote: > User Iam wrote: >> HI >> >> How do I force my nic card to half-duplex.. >> >> I have read the man page and it is probably there and I just didn't >> recognize it... >> > ifconfig bfe0 mediaopt half-duplex > works for me (wi

Re: Half-Duplex

2007-05-22 Thread Vince
User Iam wrote: > HI > > How do I force my nic card to half-duplex.. > > I have read the man page and it is probably there and I just didn't > recognize it... > ifconfig bfe0 mediaopt half-duplex works for me (with a bfe interface :) but you are right I didnt see it

Half-Duplex

2007-05-22 Thread User Iam
HI How do I force my nic card to half-duplex.. I have read the man page and it is probably there and I just didn't recognize it... TIA User Iam ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fr

Re: [Re: Configuring Ethernet Interface for 100 Half Duplex]

2004-01-29 Thread Danie du Toit
;[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: - Original Message - Fr= om: "Danie du Toit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 9:50 AM Subject= : Configuring Ethernet Interface for 100 Half Duplex > > I need t with no IP pr > Currently t

Re: Configuring Ethernet Interface for 100 Half Duplex

2004-01-29 Thread Micheal Patterson
- Original Message - From: "Danie du Toit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 9:50 AM Subject: Configuring Ethernet Interface for 100 Half Duplex > >I need t with no IP pr >Currently the card autos

Configuring Ethernet Interface for 100 Half Duplex

2004-01-29 Thread Danie du Toit
I need t= o set up a spare Ethernet Interface as 100Mb/s Half Duplex, with no IP pr= otocol info and permanently in promiscuous mode. Currently the card autosense 100 Full - = I want to set up a IDS interface. I could not find it in ifconfig, so I g= uess it is done on init

Re: full/half duplex

2003-02-28 Thread Cliff Sarginson
is reporting that it was in > > > half-duplex mode, so I booted up my 3com dos utility book disk and > > > checked and it was at half-duplex so I changed it to full. ifconfig is > > > still reporting it being half-duplex. Do I need to reinstall the driver > > > or

Re: full/half duplex

2003-02-28 Thread Jeremy Faulkner
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 08:23:35PM +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 11:37:19PM -, Chris Phillips wrote: > > Aaron wrote: - > > I have a 3Com 3c900-Combo and ifconfig is reporting that it was in > > half-duplex mode, so I booted up my 3com dos

Re: full/half duplex

2003-02-28 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 11:37:19PM -, Chris Phillips wrote: > Aaron wrote: - > I have a 3Com 3c900-Combo and ifconfig is reporting that it was in > half-duplex mode, so I booted up my 3com dos utility book disk and > checked and it was at half-duplex so I changed it to full.

RE: full/half duplex

2003-02-27 Thread Chris Phillips
Aaron wrote: - I have a 3Com 3c900-Combo and ifconfig is reporting that it was in half-duplex mode, so I booted up my 3com dos utility book disk and checked and it was at half-duplex so I changed it to full. ifconfig is still reporting it being half-duplex. Do I need to reinstall the driver or

RE: full/half duplex

2003-02-27 Thread Chris Phillips
Aaron Wrote: - I have a 3Com 3c900-Combo and ifconfig is reporting that it was in half-duplex mode, so I booted up my 3com dos utility book disk and checked and it was at half-duplex so I changed it to full. ifconfig is still reporting it being half-duplex. Do I need to reinstall the driver or

Re: full/half duplex

2003-02-27 Thread G D McKee
Hi Could you post the output of ifconfig please? Gordon - Original Message - From: "Aaron Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 8:47 PM Subject: full/half duplex > I have a 3Com 3c900-Combo and ifconfig is

full/half duplex

2003-02-27 Thread Aaron Walker
I have a 3Com 3c900-Combo and ifconfig is reporting that it was in half-duplex mode, so I booted up my 3com dos utility book disk and checked and it was at half-duplex so I changed it to full. ifconfig is still reporting it being half-duplex. Do I need to reinstall the driver or something? How