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Date:      Wed, 20 Sep 2000 19:31:59 -0700
From:      Fred Condo <fred@condo.chico.ca.us>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Ethernet: full-duplex how?
Message-ID:  <20000920193159.B25503@absinthe.condo.chico.ca.us>

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I have a system with an IntelPro Ethernet card, which purports to
support full-duplex (reformatted for legibility):

# ifconfig fxp0
fxp0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        inet XXX.YYY.236.105 netmask 0xfffffc00 broadcast
        XXX.YYY.239.255
        inet6 fe80::2d0:b7ff:fe65:d038%fxp0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
        atalk 12174.21 range 12174-12174 phase 2 broadcast 0.255
        ether 00:d0:b7:65:d0:38
        media: autoselect (100baseTX) status: active
        supported media: autoselect 100baseTX <full-duplex> 100baseTX
        10baseT/UTP <full-duplex> 10baseT/UTP

But trying to set full-duplex results in an error:

# ifconfig fxp0 mediaopt full-duplex
ifconfig: SIOCSIFMEDIA: Device not configured

My workaround is to have our network staff change my port on the
switch to half-duplex, but I'm hoping to learn how to do this for
future reference. Thanks.

System is:

FreeBSD foo.example.com 4.1-STABLE FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE #1: Thu Jul 27
19:07:54 PDT 2000     fred@foo.example.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/FOO
i386
-- 
Fred Condo + fred@condo.chico.ca.us



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