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List:       freebsd-hackers
Subject:    Re: BOOTP kernel modification
From:       Mike Smith <msmith () FreeBSD ! ORG>
Date:       2000-03-31 17:45:56
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> Hello!
> 
>   I have a problem where I'm trying to bootp an Alpha box.  It works great
> over a hub, but through a switch it fails miserably.
> 
>   I tracked it down to a bad autoconfiguration.  The switch is
> autonegotiating 100Mb/fdx and the client is autonegotiating 100Mb/hdx.
> Needless to say, this doesn't help with BOOTP requests - things tend to time
> out.  Forcing the switch to 100Mb/hdx makes the process work smoothly.
> Forcing the switch to 100Mb/fdx causes more timeouts.
> 
>   For other reasons, I'd like to force the switch to 100Mb/fdx at all times,
> and just force the BOOTP process to initialize the card at a 100Mb/fdx.

The 'dc' driver will pick up the settings from SRM, so just initialise 
the SRM correctly to whatever you want.

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\\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\  Mike Smith
\\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself,  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime.             \\  msmith@cdrom.com




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