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From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
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On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 03:38:17PM +0100, Dimitry Andric wrote:
> 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:
>=20
>      The rl driver supports the following media options:
>=20
>      full-duplex           Force full duplex operation
>=20
>      half-duplex           Force half duplex operation.
>=20
> 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".

Someone should import a FreeBSD version of the ifmedia manpage from
NetBSD.  Among other things it mentions that driver should not support
both full-duplex and half-duplex media-opts (unless the device normaly
runs in a mode which is neither and supports both.)

-- Brooks

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