> > Ah, you have a point there. The problem is we have so many wires, > > we don't know which port goes to what on the Catalyst so we had it on > > autodetect and FreeBSD does boot up with fxp0 showing 100Mbps Full Duplex. > > > Cisco's can show you which mac-adresses are on which port. Probably > Catalyst's can too. > > Or have somebody pull the cable in and out of the pc, and watch for the > light go on and off on the switch :-)
A combination of those two would probably be useful. Then make a note of the port configuration, and *keep it updated*. This is essential for a hassle-free switched Ethernet environment. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sth...@nethelp.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
