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From: "Alejandro Ramirez" <ales@megared.net.mx>
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Subject: RE: ethernet card / ifconfig -a / dhclient
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 16:51:34 -0500
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Hi,

    The only device that gives you full-duplex connectivity its a switch, if
your computer its connected to a switch, then you can use the mediaopt
switch in your /etc/rc.conf file to force it to full-duplex, see man
ifconfig. I think the syntaxis its:

ifconfig_xl0="inet x.x.x.x  netmask y.y.y.y mediaopt full-duplex"

Ales

----- Original Message -----
From: Mark S. Reichman <reichman@twcny.rr.com>
To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 1999 4:50 PM
Subject: ethernet card / ifconfig -a / dhclient


> I just setup my 3c90x family ethernet card for
> roadrunner and I get the following.  The media is
> half-duplex.  It says it supports full-duplex.
> Do I want to somehow change this to full-duplex?
> Would I do this in my dhclient.conf file?
> Seems full-duplex is always desired over half-duplex from
> what I have experienced.
>
>
> mark@:/usr/local/bin:>ifconfig -a
> xl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>         inet 24.95.188.181 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 24.95.188.255
>         ether 00:50:04:ce:5d:18
>         media: 10baseT/UTP <half-duplex>
>         supported media: 10baseT/UTP <full-duplex> 10baseT/UTP
> <half-duplex> 10baseT/UTP
>
> ----- more ifconfig -a snipped ----
>
>
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