The de driver for stable will not select full-duplex on some (all?)
cards with MII transceivers. I posted a patch for the DLINK 570TX
quad port card that may work with other 21143/MII cards. I don't
have the patch handy at the moment, check the list archives if
anyone is interested.
John Capo
Quoting Nick Rogness ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> Ah ha! I thought I was the only one having problems with the de
> driver. Performance just went right down the tubes running
> 100BaseT at Full-Duplex. However, after days of troubleshooting
> why I was getting 6Kb a second across a X-over cable between two
> machines, I ran it down to the Full-duplex operation. Apparently,
> When half-duplex was enabled, performance was great...at
> full-duplex...6kb a sec (even ftp stalls). FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE
> and 3.3-STABLE...same results on both.
>
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