Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 00:04:48 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Fred Condo <fred@condo.chico.ca.us> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ethernet: full-duplex how? Message-ID: <200009210704.AAA08336@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 20 Sep 2000 19:31:59 PDT." <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. Try: ifconfig fxp0 media 100basetx mediaopt full-duplex -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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