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Subject: Re: Switching between half-duplex and full duplex
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On Sunday 03 June 2007, Pang wrote:
> Hello,
>   I have just installed FreeBSD and found that the nic em0 is set to
> half-duplex only. Could anyone tell me how I can switch it to full-duplex?
>
> em0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>         options=b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU>
>         inet 172.16.0.2 netmask 0xfffffffc broadcast 172.16.0.1
>         ether XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
>         media: Ethernet autoselect (10baseT/UTP <half-duplex>)
>         status: active
>
> Thanks
> Pang
According to ifconfig(8) and em(4):
# ifconfig em0 mediaopt full-duplex

HTH,
Pieter de Goeje