Subject: Re: FW: NE2000 driver
To: Murray Armfield <murray@gem.com.au>
From: Zdenek Salvet <salvet@ics.muni.cz>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/02/1999 07:29:21
> Here's the result of the ifconfig -m ne2
>
> ne2: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> media: Ethernet 10baseT full-duplex (10base2)
> supported Ethernet media:
> media 10base2
> media 10baseT mediaopt full-duplex
> media 10baseT
> media autoselect
> inet 10.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 10.255.255.255
>
> As you can see the media is set to full duplex. However the observable
> performance of the card is half the fully available bandwidth of the network
> and half what NT can do.
> The card is connected as 10base-T to a hub.
^^^^
Hubs are half-duplex devices, use "ifconfig ne2 media 10baseT".
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