[TriLUG] Re: [TrilLUG] setting eth0 to full duplex

[Lance A. Brown]

3y3 at earthlink.net wrote:
> man ifconfig 
> 
>       media type
>               Set  the  physical port or medium type to be used by the device.
>               Not all devices can change this setting, and those that can vary
>               in  what  values  they  support.   Typical  values  for type are
>               10base2 (thin Ethernet), 10baseT (twisted-pair 10Mbps Ethernet),
>               AUI  (external  transceiver) and so on.  The special medium type
>               of auto can be used to tell the driver to auto-sense the  media.
>               Again, not all drivers can do this.

This won't do it.  The media type selector is for choosing a particular 
physical media, not speed/duplex.

--[Lance]

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