pppOe 1000baseTX config

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On Monday 25 July 2005 15:38, John Brooks wrote:
> > I've recently switched from a Netgear router to use pppOe for my public
> > internet ip on FreeBSD 5.4.
> >
> > My machine has two nics: bge0 and re0, both of which support 1000baseTX
> > configurations, however neither of the two seem to be able to
> > connect when I
> > configure them in /etc/rc.conf.  Here's what works:
>
> correct me if this is a wrong assumption, this is a dsl line??
>
> what do you expect to gain here? forcing 1000baseTX on the NIC won't
> speed up the dsl line.
> _______________________________________________
Is there any speed advatage possible beyond the (10baseT/UTP)?  If not then I 
guess it doesn't matter.

The dsl modem is on bge0, which ifconfig reports as

bge0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        options=1a<TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING>
        inet6 fe80::211:11ff:febd:be3a%bge0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
        ether 00:11:11:bd:be:3a
        media: Ethernet autoselect (10baseT/UTP)

My expectation (hope) is to change the "10base" in the media: line to 
"100base" or "1000base" to gain any throughput advantage that is possible.

The internal network is on re0, which ifconfig reports as

re0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        options=1b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING>
        inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
        inet6 fe80::240:f4ff:feb4:841a%re0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
        ether 00:40:f4:b4:84:1a
        media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
        status: active

I'd like the change the "100base" in the media: line to a "1000base", if 
possible.

thanks for your eyes!

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