I posted this on the Apple discussion boards - but perhpas someone here might have some insight:
Hi,
I live in a neighbourhood wired with fibre. So I subscribed thinking I could make the move away from shared hosting and set up and run an inhouse server for my meagre web offerings.
At the pole there is a switch "hardcoded to 10 Mbps full duplex" I am told by my service provider. I have "copper" / ethernet coming from the pole into my home office.
When I have my G4 DP867 directly connected (no router) via PPPoe with ethernet manually set to 10baseT <full duplex> I achieve downstream speeds approaching 10Mbps (service provider is troubleshooting low upstream speeds - a different issue).
When I plug the cable into the Mac Mini Intel 1.67 it will not autonegotiate correctly (neither did the G4) and it will not allow me to manually set the duplex to full - unlike my G4.
G4 OS = 10.3.9
Mac Mini = 10.4.8
The mini only achieves about 1.5Mbps in its stuck half duplex state.
I noticed some code for enabling full duplex:
sudo ifconfig en0 media 10baseT/UTP mediaopt full-duplex
Will this work in my situation?
Will it be a permanent change? (what happens after reboot?)
My hope is to set up the mini as my web server (so quiet compared to the G4).
Apple support suggested I try searching / posting.
Any guidance would be great.
Thanks.
Peter
ifconfig for the mac mini
en0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ether 00:16:cb:a8:34:82
media: autoselect (10baseT/UTP <half-duplex>) status: active
supported media: autoselect 10baseT/UTP <half-duplex> 10baseT/UTP <full-duplex> 10baseT/UTP <full-duplex,hw-loopback> 10baseT/UTP <full-duplex,flow-control> 100baseTX <half-duplex> 100baseTX <full-duplex> 100baseTX <full-duplex,hw-loopback> 100baseTX <full-duplex,flow-control> 1000baseT <full-duplex> 1000baseT <full-duplex,hw-loopback> 1000baseT <full-duplex,flow-control> none
10 Mar 2007
I posted this on the Apple discussion boards - but perhpas someone here might have some insight:
Hi,
I live in a neighbourhood wired with fibre. So I subscribed thinking I could make the move away from shared hosting and set up and run an inhouse server for my meagre web offerings.
At the pole there is a switch "hardcoded to 10 Mbps full duplex" I am told by my service provider. I have "copper" / ethernet coming from the pole into my home office.
When I have my G4 DP867 directly connected (no router) via PPPoe with ethernet manually set to 10baseT <full duplex> I achieve downstream speeds approaching 10Mbps (service provider is troubleshooting low upstream speeds - a different issue).
When I plug the cable into the Mac Mini Intel 1.67 it will not autonegotiate correctly (neither did the G4) and it will not allow me to manually set the duplex to full - unlike my G4.
G4 OS = 10.3.9
Mac Mini = 10.4.8
The mini only achieves about 1.5Mbps in its stuck half duplex state.
I noticed some code for enabling full duplex:
sudo ifconfig en0 media 10baseT/UTP mediaopt full-duplex
Will this work in my situation?
Will it be a permanent change? (what happens after reboot?)
My hope is to set up the mini as my web server (so quiet compared to the G4).
Apple support suggested I try searching / posting.
Any guidance would be great.
Thanks.
Peter
ifconfig for the mac mini
en0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ether 00:16:cb:a8:34:82
media: autoselect (10baseT/UTP <half-duplex>) status: active
supported media: autoselect 10baseT/UTP <half-duplex> 10baseT/UTP <full-duplex> 10baseT/UTP <full-duplex,hw-loopback> 10baseT/UTP <full-duplex,flow-control> 100baseTX <half-duplex> 100baseTX <full-duplex> 100baseTX <full-duplex,hw-loopback> 100baseTX <full-duplex,flow-control> 1000baseT <full-duplex> 1000baseT <full-duplex,hw-loopback> 1000baseT <full-duplex,flow-control> none
11 Mar 2007
Sorry can't help you there, I'm no networking expert. I did read something about tweaking your ethernet connection here: http://www.macgeekery.com/tips/configuration/mac_os_x_network_tuning_guide_revisited maybe that will point to some solution to your problem or someone else might pick it up...