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Date:      Fri, 18 Apr 2003 15:46:15 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Conrad Sabatier <conrads@cox.net>
To:        Gary Jennejohn <garyj@jennejohn.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Proper way to configure NIC in full duplex
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20030418154615.conrads@cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <200304042042.h34KgcuN025122@peedub.jennejohn.org>

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On 04-Apr-2003 Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> 
> 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"

You can also create an /etc/start_if.<interface_name> script and issue any
ifconfig command(s) you want there (better for DHCP users).

-- 
Conrad Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> - "In Unix veritas"



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