FreeBSD crossover cable network

[krad]

2009/9/24 Oliver Mahmoudi <olivermahmoudi at gmail.com>

> Hi everybody,
>
> I am trying to set up a crossover cable network between two computers
> running FreeBSD 7.0.
> The network cards are configured and they work, i.e. I pinged myself and it
> works.
>
> However, when booting up the systems I always get the error message that
> the
> link status
> of my network cards has changed to down.
>
> Running `ifconfig` tells me that no carrier has been detected even though
> the cable ends are
> plugged in.
>
> Any pointers on how to solve this one are welcome.
>
> Thanks
>
> Oliver
> _______________________________________________
> freebsd-questions at freebsd.org mailing list
> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions
> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "
> freebsd-questions-unsubscribe at freebsd.org"
>

force both ends to 100 full, although autoneg should work fine. Are you sure
its not just reporting that as it comes up and not soring itself out after
10-15 s?