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To: Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@cdsnet.net>
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Subject: Re: Does de driver do 100MBIT Full Duplex? 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Tue, 01 Apr 1997 18:59:08 -0800
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>I'm not sure exactly how the process works, but the SMC card (dual
>etherpower 10/100), seems unable to kick into full-duplex mode with my
>Linkswitch.
>
>Does the driver support it?  ifconfig shows a "Simplex" flag, but if
>I remember correctly, that was something to do with if a card could read
>it's own output on coax or somesuch.

   No, the current de driver in FreeBSD does not support full duplex.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project