SIS NIC drivers problem if use "media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex"

[Jason Tsai]

Hi all,

First sorry for my poor writing engish! I don't know if it's right to post in this mailist, but I think it's best place I can ask this kind of question.

I am using FreeBSD 5.4-RC3 now for testing purpose, I find that if I use  ifconfig_sis0="inet 10.10.1.148  netmask 255.255.255.0"  in /etc/rc.conf, everything goes ok when I am using Jmeter(from Windows Box) to load testing tomcat(on FreeBSD 5.4-RC3); but if I change  ifconfig_sis0  to "inet 10.10.1.148  netmask 255.255.255.0 media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex", I always got "sis0 watchdog timeout" error when I am doing testing. 

Actually, the output of ifconfig if I am using ifconfig_sis0="inet 10.10.1.148  netmask 255.255.255.0" is like this:

sis0: flags=18843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,POLLING> mtu 1500
        options=48<VLAN_MTU,POLLING>
        inet 10.10.1.148 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.10.1.255
        ether 00:06:4f:02:f9:9a
        media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
        status: active

I am wondering if it's a bug?

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