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Date:      Mon, 18 Mar 1996 17:44:27 +1030 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        rdugaue@calweb.com (Robert Du Gaue)
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: hmm
Message-ID:  <199603180714.RAA24714@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960317221840.15251A-100000@mail.calweb.com> from "Robert Du Gaue" at Mar 17, 96 10:19:42 pm

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Robert Du Gaue stands accused of saying:
> 
> Ok, I've seen the SIMPLEX thread. I'm getting this too:
> 
> de0: flags=c863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,LINK2,MULTICAST> 
> 
> However, this is a PCI SMC ethernet. I thought these were more advanced! 
> Are they? Is something configured wrong?

No!  Nothing is wrong.  Simplex is _normal_ for ethernets.  It's possible
to do full duplex on twisted pair, but it's a relatively uncommon abuse of 
the medium, and AFAIK none of the drivers in FreeBSD supports it.

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