On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 12:47:29PM +0300, Lev Serebryakov wrote: > Hello, Freebsd-net. > > Very large and famous (due to very attractive prices) hosting > provider Hetzner.de discards FreeBSD support on dedicated servers, > because these servers can niot negotiate 100Mbit/DUPLEX when > switches' ports are limited to 100Mbit (1Gbit connection costs > additional money) only under FreeBSD. Linux works fine. > > Switches known to be Juniper e3k series. > > MoBos of servers are different assortment of MSI MoBos with Realtek > (re driver) network-on-board. > > Symptjms are: NIC can not negotiate/set duplex when switch port is > limited to 100Mbit/Duplex. Duplex can not be set even manually via > "ifconfig": > > > media: Ethernet 100baseTX <full-duplex> (100baseTX <half-duplex>) > > Is it know problem? Maybe, -CURRENT driver has fix for it? > > Unfortunately, I can not provide more information, as I don't have > server at Hetzner (I'm planning to order one, but due to these > problems, I'm not sure now, as I need FreeBSD), and all this > information is collected in communication with people who HAVE servers > with FreeBSD installed. > > Again, I know, that Realtek NICs are crap, but "everybody says" that > Linux doesn't have THIS problem with THESE boards and switches. >
I can see what's going on here. Link partner used forced media configuration, probably 100baseTX/full-duplex, and re(4)'s resolved link is 100baseTX/half-duplex. rgephy(4) currently always use auto-negotiation to work-around link establishment issues reported in past. I don't know how Linux managed to address link establishment issues for non-autonegotiation case though. Perhaps a lot of vendor supplied DSP fixups addressed that issue but I'm not sure. For your case, the only way to address the issue at this moment is to use auto-negotiation but that would establish 1000baseT link which would add cost for you. Alternatively request half-duplex configuration to the provider to get a agreed link duplex. See http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-amd64/2011-January/013589.html for details on parallel detection. _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"