On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 19:22, Tomek Tylec wrote: > > I've found vr(4) devices (which are very common in Via chipset > > motherboards) don't like talking to some switches and I need to force > > half duplex then unplug and replug the cable :( > > I've tried all possible combinations with media and mediaopts, and I get > nothing. When I try to set half-duplex it doesn't work at all. > > I didn't mentioned before that under FreeBSD 4.10 everything worked > fine.
Hmm, I'm not sure what changed sorry - perhaps you could look for changes in the code by using cvsweb.freebsd.org. > I found also some interesting (but not clear for me) behaviour of ping: > > $ ping 213.25.86.88 > [cut few lines] > 64 bytes from 213.25.86.88: icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=0.311 ms > 64 bytes from 213.25.86.88: icmp_seq=6 ttl=64 time=0.944 ms > 92 bytes from 192.168.3.1: Redirect Host(New addr: 213.25.86.88) > Vr HL TOS Len ID Flg off TTL Pro cks Src Dst > 4 5 00 0054 0105 0 0000 40 01 8a7d 192.168.3.13 213.25.86.88 > > 64 bytes from 213.25.86.88: icmp_seq=7 ttl=64 time=0.314 ms > 64 bytes from 213.25.86.88: icmp_seq=8 ttl=64 time=0.288 ms > > I'm not local network, my IP is 192.168.3.13, 192.168.3.1 is my > gateway. Strange.. never seen that before - what OS runs on the gateway? -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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