[TriLUG] NIC may be too old

[Aaron S. Joyner]

Well that depends entirely on if you plan on stuffing more than 10 
Megabits of traffic through it.  :)  If it's the external interface 
connected to your DSL/Cable/* router - it's likely that the other side 
of the cable is only 10Mbit anyway, and probably limited beyond that to 
at most 3Mbits, so anything more is wasted.  That 3com NIC is certainly 
capable of shoveling it's rated capacity worth of data.

Aaron S. Joyner

PS - for those who are curious, "xl" is the driver for 3com nics in 
*BSD, hence the name of the interface is xl0.

Mike M wrote:

>On recently installed BSD system I found my NIC only does
>10BaseT.  It is pretty old.  Should I ditch this interface?
>
>bsd1# ifconfig -m xl0
>xl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>        address: 00:60:08:cf:6b:69
>        media: Ethernet 10baseT (10baseT half-duplex)
>        supported media:
>                media 10baseT
>                media 10baseT mediaopt half-duplex
>		media 10baseT mediaopt full-duplex
>	        media 10base5 
>		media 10base2
>        inet 192.168.1.101 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
>        inet6 fe80::260:8ff:fecf:6b69%xl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
>  
>