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From: Gary Jennejohn <garyj@jennejohn.org>
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Subject: Re: Proper way to configure NIC in full duplex 
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"William Ashworth" writes:
> Someone told me that I might not be running the interface in full duplex.
> How can I determine this?  How can I fix it if I am not currently running in
> full duplex?
> 

garyj:peedub:mail:bash:34> ifconfig rl0
rl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        inet 134.98.93.22 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 134.98.93.255
        ether 00:00:e8:ea:58:85
        media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
        status: active

Read the manpage. You can use media and mediaopts to force full-duplex
and 100baseTX.

Put something like this into /etc/rc.conf:

ifconfig_rl0="inet aa.bb.cc.dd netmask 0xffffff00 media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex"

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Gary Jennejohn / garyj@jennejohn.org gj@freebsd.org gj@denx.de