Hi,
"José M. Fandiño" wrote:
>
> eirvine wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm running 4.3 Beta on a shiny new Dell 1400. The NIC
> > comes up as the fxp0 device. It is an embedded Intel
> > pro 100/+
> >
> > The light on the switch says it is in Duplex mode.
> > However, ipconfig -a says SIMPLEX. I've tried a
> > different switch, but no change.
>
> I think that SIMPLEX is a BSD feature independent of
> NIC half/full-duplex, the *BSD can't hear your own
> transmissions.
>
This means the card really is in DUPLEX mode, but
ifconfig doesn't show it. Is that right?
> > Using the tweaks John Polstra wrote about with NFS
> > mounts gives me around 8Mb/sec for an NFS read so
> > there ain't nothing wrong with network performance.
> >
> > What gives?
> >
> > Eddie.
Eddie.
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