Here is more. May be I do not understand the reading, I understand it to mean for example:

>> media: Ethernet 10baseT (1000baseSX half-duplex)

Would be hard configuration to be 10mb half-duplex and then the (xx) would show what is actually in use.

Isn't this correct?

I may be confuse, but that's what I understand.

Now if so, here below some of the various display and changes to see the results.

# ifconfig -m nfe0
nfe0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        lladdr 00:14:4f:7d:a6:de
        media: Ethernet 100baseTX full-duplex (1000baseSX full-duplex)
        status: active
        supported media:
                media none
                media 10baseT
                media 10baseT mediaopt full-duplex
                media 100baseTX
                media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex
                media 1000baseSX
                media 1000baseSX mediaopt full-duplex
                media 1000baseT
                media 1000baseT mediaopt full-duplex
                media autoselect
        inet 192.168.100.75 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.100.255
        inet6 fe80::214:4fff:fe7d:a6de%nfe0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
# ifconfig nfe0 media 10baseT
# ifconfig nfe0
nfe0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        lladdr 00:14:4f:7d:a6:de
        media: Ethernet 10baseT (1000baseSX half-duplex)
        status: active
        inet 192.168.100.75 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.100.255
        inet6 fe80::214:4fff:fe7d:a6de%nfe0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
# ifconfig nfe0 media 10baseT mediaopt full-duplex
# ifconfig nfe0
nfe0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        lladdr 00:14:4f:7d:a6:de
        media: Ethernet 10baseT full-duplex (1000baseSX full-duplex)
        status: active
        inet 192.168.100.75 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.100.255
        inet6 fe80::214:4fff:fe7d:a6de%nfe0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
# ifconfig nfe0 media 100baseTX
# ifconfig nfe0
nfe0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        lladdr 00:14:4f:7d:a6:de
        media: Ethernet 100baseTX (1000baseSX half-duplex)
        status: no carrier
        inet 192.168.100.75 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.100.255
        inet6 fe80::214:4fff:fe7d:a6de%nfe0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
# ifconfig nfe0 media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex
# ifconfig nfe0
nfe0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        lladdr 00:14:4f:7d:a6:de
        media: Ethernet 100baseTX full-duplex (1000baseSX full-duplex)
        status: active
        inet 192.168.100.75 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.100.255
        inet6 fe80::214:4fff:fe7d:a6de%nfe0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
# ifconfig nfe0 media 1000baseSX

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