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 -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant
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