On 2010/06/18 05:13, Siju George wrote:
> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 11:33 PM, Stuart Henderson <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > Are you able to try any different types of NIC? (either a newer realtek
> > card using the re(4) driver, or something like fxp, de, sk, bge, em).
> >
> > Alternatively, connecting the modem via a switch might work.
> >
> >
>
> IT didnt work :-)
>
> But now the netgear is also showing problem dropping packets and this
> is what we got from the support team of the ISP.
>
> =========
>
> Attached is the screen shot when the laptop was directly connected to
> the modem and tested. We are getting 2 Mbps upload and download
> consistently without producing any packet drop to the ping request
> given to DNS.
>
> ISSUE : Mismatch in negotiation settings with modem and CPE.
>
> CPE : Netgear WIFI Router with no option to manage negotiation settings.
>
> ASMI52 Modem is set to Auto OFF 100F.
>
> This mismatch will lead link to migrate to half duplex mode and making
> issues in upload stream.
>
> Advised Mr. Joby to migrate CPE that supports to manage negotiation settings.
>
> =========================
>
> So it is auto negotiation problem as Reyk suggested at first but how
> to get rid of it in OpenBSD NIC?
>
> thanks
>
> --Siju
Either the ASMI52 should be set to allow auto-negotiation, or
your nic should be set to force 100Mb full-duplex ("media 100baseTX
mediaopt full-duplex").
I suggest you try a different NIC if you can't get your rl(4) to
establish link.
