Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 15:38:17 +0100 From: Dimitry Andric <dim@xs4all.nl> To: Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com> Cc: "Jose M. Alcaide" <jose@we.lc.ehu.es>, John Hoover <johnhoover@home.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Realtek 8139 Message-ID: <133020112.20011130153817@xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20011129134536.A23096@tp.databus.com> References: <000001c178f5$d9e579e0$c801a8c0@internal.unknown> <78613144074.20011129180510@xs4all.nl> <20011129182803.L346@v-ger.we.lc.ehu.es> <20011129134536.A23096@tp.databus.com>
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On 2001-11-29 at 19:45:36 Barney Wolff wrote:
BW> If by chance a card is in full-duplex,
BW> ifconfig xx0 -mediaopt full-duplex
BW> will turn it off. rtfm ifconfig(1).
Of course, but ifconfig(1) says to "refer to the interfaces' driver
specific man page for a complete list of available options", and then
rl(4) says:
The rl driver supports the following media options:
full-duplex Force full duplex operation
half-duplex Force half duplex operation.
So this last entry is clearly incorrect. It should probably say
something like "if you don't specify full-duplex, the default is
half-duplex".
Now everybody who reads this man page for the first time will try:
ifconfig rl0 mediaopt half-duplex
only to find that it doesn't work as advertised (you'll SIOCSIFMEDIA:
Device not configured). If there's a need, I'll shoot in a PR for this
one... :)
Cheers,
- --
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