5.
Reboot your system by typing either:
# boot -r
or
# reboot
C O N F I G U R I N G T H E N I C S P E E D A N D D U P L E X M O D E
The P430 fast ethernet NIC can operate at either 10Mbps (standard
ethernet) or 100 Mbps (fast ethernet). In either speed mode the inter-
face can be in half-duplex or full-duplex mode. The factory default for
the interface card is auto-negotiation/auto-sense and half-duplex if
auto-negotiation fails.
N O T E :
The P430 supports the NWay Auto-Negotiation which is defined
in ANSI/IEEE standard 802.3u Draft 5. This means that the P430
will try and auto-negotiate with its link partner. If the link partner
does not support auto-negotiation, the card will automatically
auto-sense the link speed. The P430 can be set to a speed and
duplex mode disabling auto sensing completely.
Phobos Corporation provides a simple utility for viewing and changing
the NIC settings. The command line version of this utility is called
"pqfe_control"
and the graphic version is called
“
PQFEControl.
”
1.
Using
pqfe_control
To see what the current settings on the interface card(s) are just
issue the command without any arguments:
# /usr/bin/pqfe_control [ENTER]
The output will look something like:
pqfe0: half-duplex, 100BASE-T (autoneg)
pqfe1: half-duplex, 100BASE-T (autoneg)
pqfe2: half-duplex, 100BASE-T (autoneg)
pqfe3: half-duplex, 100BASE-T (autoneg)
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