Comments on: FreeBSD Set Speed Duplex For My Network Card ( NIC )

By: nbari

nbari — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:44:46 +0000

if you are on a remote server take care when doing this:

# /etc/rc.d/netif restart

that will also mess with your routes and probability your server will become unreachable so better run this:

( /etc/rc.d/netif restart ; /etc/rc.d/routing restart )

that way after restarting the ‘network’ you can also restart your routes and still access the server

By: Raj

Raj — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:13:09 +0000

Good article. Just a quick note about DHCP, following will not work:
ifconfig_em0="DHCP" ifconfig_em0="media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex"
I got it working by creating /etc/start_if.em0:
ifconfig em0 media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex
Make sue /etc/rc.conf just has the following config directive:
ifconfig_em0="DHCP"

Cheers,

Raj