Thanks for the suggestion but it looks like the nic actually accepts the
speed and duplex that I try to assign (see the ifconfig output and the
difference between an untouched nic (sis0 media: Ethernet autoselect
(100baseTX <full-duplex>)) and the one that I tried to set the speeds to
(sis2 media: Ethernet 100baseTX <full-duplex> (10baseT/UTP)). Running
ifconfig -m from exec.php shows me that I entered the mediasettings
exactly the way that the driver wants them to be. I'm at a loss and that
ISP-provided device is out of my control and they only allow that one
default configuration. No way to change it unfortunately.

Holger


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	From: Todd D. Volz [mailto:todd at stir dot org] 
	Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 1:50 AM
	To: Holger Bauer
	Subject: Re: [m0n0wall] Problem forcing speed and duplex mode
(in 1.233 as well as in 1.3b11)
	
	
	A quick and possibly easy solution, ask the person who manages
the other end to enable auto negotiation instead of setting 100 mbps
full duplex (is the remote end a Cisco device?)
	
	Barring that I'm not up on FreeBSD, but on Linux each NIC driver
can have a different way to set the speed and duplex. Since the version
of FreeBSD was recently upgraded for M0n0wall maybe recheck
documentation on yours NICs with this new version of FreeBSD, it's
possible the drivers changed how they expect the speed and duplex to be
set.
	
	Todd
	----- "Holger Bauer" wrote: 
	> Hello,
	> I have some problems on a special link where I have to force
duplex
	> settings using hidden config.xml setting (autonegotiation is
not working
	> and detecting the wrong duplex mode which leads to lots of
collisions
	> and a pretty variable bandwidth which completely breaks
trafficshaping).
	> I already forced duplex modes with older versions of m0n0
successfully
	> in the past but somehow it doesn't work anymore with the newer
version
	> (though ifconfig shows that I have forced speed and duplex
successfully:
	> sis0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu
1500
	>         options=8<VLAN_MTU>
	>         inet 10.10.20.15 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast
10.10.20.255
	>         ether 00:0d:b9:04:93:e8
	>         media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
	>         status: active
	> ...
	> sis2: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu
1500
	>         options=8<VLAN_MTU>
	>         inet 10.10.15.20 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast
10.10.15.255
	>         ether 00:0d:b9:04:93:ea
	>         media: Ethernet 100baseTX <full-duplex> (10baseT/UTP)
	>         status: active
	> Note that sis1 is still at autoselect and sis2 shows my forced
duplex
	> settings but still negotiates to 10baseT/UTP. I just did this
test with
	> an old 10baseT hub though the original problem exists with a
device that
	> has 100baseTX/fullduplex set but negotiates to 100baseTX/half
duplex.
	> Forcing fullduplex doesn't work.
	> I tried 1.233 and 1.3b11 but the result is exactly the same
with both
	> versions.
	> Anybody have a clue what to do?
	> Thanks in advance
	> Holger
	>
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