VIA Rhine II network card

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 19:22, Tomek Tylec wrote:
> > I've found vr(4) devices (which are very common in Via chipset
> > motherboards) don't like talking to some switches and I need to force
> > half duplex then unplug and replug the cable :(
>
> I've tried all possible combinations with media and mediaopts, and I get
> nothing. When I try to set half-duplex it doesn't work at all.
>
> I didn't mentioned before that under FreeBSD 4.10 everything worked
> fine.

Hmm, I'm not sure what changed sorry - perhaps you could look for changes in 
the code by using cvsweb.freebsd.org.

> I found also some interesting (but not clear for me) behaviour of ping:
>
> $ ping 213.25.86.88
> [cut few lines]
> 64 bytes from 213.25.86.88: icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=0.311 ms
> 64 bytes from 213.25.86.88: icmp_seq=6 ttl=64 time=0.944 ms
> 92 bytes from 192.168.3.1: Redirect Host(New addr: 213.25.86.88)
> Vr HL TOS  Len   ID Flg  off TTL Pro  cks      Src      Dst
>  4  5  00 0054 0105   0 0000  40  01 8a7d 192.168.3.13  213.25.86.88
>
> 64 bytes from 213.25.86.88: icmp_seq=7 ttl=64 time=0.314 ms
> 64 bytes from 213.25.86.88: icmp_seq=8 ttl=64 time=0.288 ms
>
> I'm not local network, my IP is 192.168.3.13, 192.168.3.1 is my
> gateway.

Strange.. never seen that before - what OS runs on the gateway?

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