From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 20 2:58:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from metis.salford.ac.uk (metis.salford.ac.uk [146.87.232.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CF5CA1B226 for ; Wed, 20 Oct 1999 02:58:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from M.S.Powell@salford.ac.uk) Received: (qmail 14715 invoked by alias); 20 Oct 1999 09:58:41 -0000 Received: (qmail 14708 invoked from network); 20 Oct 1999 09:58:41 -0000 Received: from plato.salford.ac.uk (146.87.255.76) by metis.salford.ac.uk with SMTP; 20 Oct 1999 09:58:41 -0000 Received: (qmail 67455 invoked by uid 141); 20 Oct 1999 09:58:41 -0000 Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 10:58:41 +0100 (BST) From: Mark Powell X-Sender: mark@localhost To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to make Ethernet come up as Full-Duplex... Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <7uincr$1i90$1@mimas.salford.ac.uk>, Mitch Collinsworth wrote: > >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-opt full-duplex ifconfig: media-opt: bad value /root # I've tried this before, but never been able to get it to work. Mark Powell - UNIX System Administrator - Clifford Whitworth Building A.I.S., University of Salford, Salford, Manchester, UK. Tel: +44 161 295 5936 Fax: +44 161 295 5888 www.pgp.com for PGP key M.S.Powell@ais.salfrd.ac.uk (spell salford correctly to reply to me) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message