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FreeBSD question

Sorcerer

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Can anyone tell me how to check to see if my NIC is set to:
1. 10 or 100
2. full or half duplex

It's running a small web/ftp server over DSL, so the speed is not real critical, but lastnight, I transfered several iso's onto it, & it took forever.

It's running Samba, so when I initially loaded it, I just used my main system (win) to just drag the entire directory structure I wanted onto the filesystem where I wanted it. That was something like 40G, so I just started it, & went to bed. No idea how long it really took then.

Thanks for any help.

 
You can use the ifconfig command to see information about your network devices.
Here's the output of my server:

dc0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 216.90.3.186 netmask 0xfffffff8 broadcast 216.90.3.191
inet6 fe80::2a0:ccff:fed7:52f%dc0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
ether 00:a0:cc😀7:05:2f
media: autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>) status: active
supported media: autoselect 100baseTX <full-duplex> 100baseTX 10baseT/UTP none
ed0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet6 fe80::220:78ff:fe18:9c90%ed0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
inet 192.168.0.3 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
ether 00:20:78:18:9c:90

On the second NIC it doesn't seem to report any information. Strange.
What you can also do, if your NIC supports it, is to look at its lights -- they usually indicate various states. Mine does, for example. Or on a router / switch, it will show whether it's 10 Mbps or 100 Mbps, and full/half duplex info.
 
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