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