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Date:      Mon, 26 Feb 1996 10:43:37 -0500
From:      "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Melvin Deloyd Robinson <melrobin@Jetson.UH.EDU>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   SIMPLEX???
Message-ID:  <9602261543.AA22752@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <1.5.4b11.32.19960226074248.0069c6a8@jetson.uh.edu>
References:  <1.5.4b11.32.19960226074248.0069c6a8@jetson.uh.edu>

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<<On Mon, 26 Feb 1996 01:42:48 -0600, Melvin Deloyd Robinson <melrobin@Jetson.UH.EDU> said:

> Hello,
> I have a 3C509 Ethernet adapter which works fine, but an ifconfig -a of it shows
> ep0: flags=863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX>.

> My question is what is SIMPLEX?

`Simplex' means that the interface cannot receive its own
transmissions.  The kernel uses this to determine whether to loop back
a copy of broadcasts you send for local consumption.

>  Would this have anything to do with my
> routing tables showing something like LINK#2 in the Gateway column?  

No.

-GAWollman

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