Re: disabling mediaopts for if_wm(4)

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Thu, 11 May 2017, Paul Goyette wrote:

> FWIW, the re(4) situation is worse - very much worse!
>
> The re(4) negotiates 100BaseTX with no mediaopts at all, neither full nor 
> half, and no flow-control.
>
> It took a couple of minutes before dhcpcd could configure the interface and 
> even then it was almost totally unusable.  The speedtest site could not 
> connect to its servers, and I couldn't even do a dns lookup (using the google 
> 8.8.8.{4,8} servers).
>
> I'm also now running 7.99.71 and wm(4) has not improved.
>
> So I guess I'm going to need a different switch.

Yup, that fixed the problem!  I replaced the D-Link switch with a 3x 
more expensive TP-Link TL-SG1008 (8-port 10/100/1000) and that has fixed 
the situation.  The speedtest.net now reports 50Mb/sec up and down - 
that's what it should be!  And actual file transfers and other activity 
(such as loading web pages) are back to normal.


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