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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