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Date:      Wed, 20 Oct 1999 13:31:11 -0400
From:      Mitch Collinsworth <mkc@Graphics.Cornell.EDU>
To:        Mark Powell <M.S.Powell@salford.ac.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How to make Ethernet come up as Full-Duplex... 
Message-ID:  <199910201731.AA063800673@broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 20 Oct 1999 10:58:41 BST." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9910201057420.67104-100000@localhost> 

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>>Assuming it's an fxp device (see "ifconfig -a") change the fxp0 line
>>in /etc/rc.conf to look like this:
>>
>>ifconfig_fxp0="inet 12.34.56.78 netmask 255.255.255.0 media 100baseTX 
>>mediaopt full-duplex"
>
>This doesn't work under 3.2-STABLE & 3.3-STABLE at least:
>
>/root # ifconfig fxp0 inet x.x.x.x netmask 0xffffff80 media 100BaseTX 
media-op
>t full-duplex
>ifconfig: media-opt: bad value
>/root #
>
>I've tried this before, but never been able to get it to work.


I don't have a system I can experiment on at the moment so I don't
know how much this matters, but I do see a difference between what
I said and what you said.  I said 100baseTX (which is what is in
the documentation).  You said 100BaseTX.

-Mitch




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