Re: ifconfig + autosense

[Panagiotis Kotsiopoulos <pkotsiop@dsg.internet.gr>]

If your /etc/hostname.xl0 file has the last two words below then i think
you may have some problem of hardware or communication between the card
and OpenBSD

# cat /etc/hostname.xl0
inet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx NONE media auto

on my case :

# cat /etc/hostname.fxp0
inet 172.31.14.30 255.255.240.0 NONE media auto


If you don't see "media auto" then add it like above


On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, Luciano Rottava da Silva wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have two openbsd servers plugged in the same switch 10/100. I noticed
> that one machine have his ethernet nic configured correctly, i.e.,
> 100baseTX and full-duplex. The other machine not. Both have the same
> ethernet card (3Com - xl0) and identical /etc/hostname.xl0 files.
>
> Below is the output of 'ifconfig -a':
>
> machine A:
>
> xl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>         media: Ethernet 10baseT (10baseT half-duplex)
>                                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> machine B:
>
> xl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>         media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex)
>                                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> How turn autoselect on in machine A ?
>
> thanks.
>
> Luciano