change mediaopt of NIC to full-duplex

Vinicius Pavanelli Vianna ds at hacked.com.br
Mon Jul 25 15:37:53 GMT 2005


The nic returns to half duplex with those bright kernel messages?
i got this when there was some kind of arp conflict on the ip, and from
cables, somehow my isp cisco switch defaults to half duplex all the
time, so when disconnect  and connect the cable it returns to half =/


Gavin McDougall wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I need to set my network cards (Intel Pro 1000) to full-duplex.
>
> I tried using ifconfig with the mediaopt option which worked, but only
> temporarily.
>
> I then downloaded mii-tool 'cos it wasn't in the ports collection but
> it just gives me critical errors when I try to compile it.
>
> Is there possibly another method that I can use on my FreeBSD server
> to permanently change my NIC settings to full-duplex?
>
> Thanks,
> Gavin
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