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From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
Subject: Re: i386/26696: mediaopt doesn't work with xl drivers "ifconfig: SIOCSIFMEDIA: Device not configured"
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The following reply was made to PR i386/26696; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To: luc@2113.ch, freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: i386/26696: mediaopt doesn't work with xl drivers "ifconfig: SIOCSIFMEDIA: Device not configured"
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 17:28:16 -0700

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 On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 07:15:19PM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote:
 > This is expected (though I'll admit that ifconfig has really lousy error
 > handling.)  If you look at the output from ifconfig closly, you'll
 > notice that half-duplex is not in the supported media list.  With
 > Ethernet interfaces, the default is assumed to be convententional
 > ethernet with full-duplex being the special case.  You are already in
 > half-duplex mode.  If you were in full duplex mode you could disable it
 > with "ifconfig xl0 -mediaopt full-duplex".
 
 A quick follow up on this.  According to the ifmedia manpage from NetBSD
 (the birthplace of ifmedia):
 
   IFM_HDX    Place the device into half-duplex mode.  This option on=AD
              ly has meaning if the device is normally not half-du=AD
 	     plex.  [half-duplex, hdx]
 
 Since classical ethernet is half duplex, it is correct that this is not
 a supported option.
 
 This PR can be closed.
 
 -- Brooks
 
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