Interpretting pfsense interface info - is it half-duplex?
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I've searched the forums without any success in answering my question - how do you know if an interface is half duplex? In my case, I am interested in fxp0.
When I look at Status > Interfaces for fxp0, I see "Media 10baseT/UTP". No indication if it is full duplex or half duplex.
When I SSH into pfsense and run ifconfig, I see "media: Ethernet autoselect (10baseT/UTP)" . When I run ifconfig -m fxp0, I see:
media: Ethernet autoselect (10baseT/UTP)
status: active
supported media:
media autoselect
media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex
media 100baseTX
media 10baseT/UTP mediaopt full-duplex
media 10baseT/UTP
media none
media 100baseTX mediaopt hw-loopbackThanks in advance,
Yakup -
Yakup,
It would appear not.
Here is the output for my WAN:
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ifconfig -m re0
re0: flags=8843 <up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
options=389b <rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum,wol_ucast,wol_mcast,wol_magic>capabilities=38db <rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,polling,vlan_hwcsum,wol_ucast,wol_mcast,wol_magic>ether 00:30:18:a5:a1:cb
inet6 fe80::230:18ff:fea5:a1cb%re0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)</full-duplex>
status: active
supported media:
media autoselect
media 1000baseTX mediaopt full-duplex
media 1000baseTX
media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex
media 100baseTX
media 10baseT/UTP mediaopt full-duplex
media 10baseT/UTP
media none–------
Scott</rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,polling,vlan_hwcsum,wol_ucast,wol_mcast,wol_magic></rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum,wol_ucast,wol_mcast,wol_magic></up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>
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Thanks Scott. I have about 30 pfsense boxes installed, and just as in your case, when an interface is 100 full-duplex, interface status shows this. However, on some interfaces, I also see "Media 10baseT/UTP" without any indication of whether its full or half. So my question really is, does "Media 10baseT/UTP" mean full or half duplex? What does the absence of a duplex indication mean?
Yakup
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It says full duplex if it's full duplex - if it's not printed, it's half.
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Thanks, jimp. That's what I thought but wanted to be sure.
Yakup
