Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2003 22:42:38 +0200 From: Gary Jennejohn <garyj@jennejohn.org> To: William Ashworth <willybaby12345@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Proper way to configure NIC in full duplex Message-ID: <200304042042.h34KgcuN025122@peedub.jennejohn.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 04 May 2003 11:53:21 PDT." <028801c3126e$72111310$728d3a40@user>
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"William Ashworth" writes:
> Someone told me that I might not be running the interface in full duplex.
> How can I determine this? How can I fix it if I am not currently running in
> full duplex?
>
garyj:peedub:mail:bash:34> ifconfig rl0
rl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 134.98.93.22 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 134.98.93.255
ether 00:00:e8:ea:58:85
media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
status: active
Read the manpage. You can use media and mediaopts to force full-duplex
and 100baseTX.
Put something like this into /etc/rc.conf:
ifconfig_rl0="inet aa.bb.cc.dd netmask 0xffffff00 media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex"
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Gary Jennejohn / garyj@jennejohn.org gj@freebsd.org gj@denx.de
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