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RGEPHY(4)		     Kernel Interfaces Manual		       RGEPHY(4)

NAME
     rgephy  -- RealTek RTL8168/8169/8110/8211 series 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ether-
     net PHY driver

SYNOPSIS
     To compile all available PHY drivers into the kernel, place the following
     line in your kernel configuration file:

	   device miibus

     Alternatively, to selectively compile this driver into the kernel, place
     the following lines in your kernel configuration file instead:

	   device mii
	   device rgephy

DESCRIPTION
     The rgephy driver	supports  the  RealTek	RTL8168,  RTL8169,  RTL8110  and
     RTL8211 series integrated 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet PHYs.

     In  order	to get a list of media types and options supported by a specific
     instance of the rgephy driver, run ifconfig -m on the instance of its  par-
     ent MAC driver.

     Additionally,  the  rgephy  driver supports the following special media op-
     tion:

     flag0  When manually setting media type and options  via  ifconfig(8),  the
	    rgephy  driver by default also triggers an autonegotiation advertis-
	    ing the selected media.  This is done in order to work around  hard-
	    ware issues in certain scenarios.  It is believed that this behavior
	    does  not  cause harm in general but in fact can have an adverse ef-
	    fect in edge cases.  In order to manually set the media type and op-
	    tions without also triggering an autonegotiation, the rgephy  driver
	    allows to turn this behavior off via the flag0 media option.

     Note  that  this special media option will not show up in the output of if-
     config(8), even when set.

EXAMPLES
     Manually set 100BASE-TX full-duplex without also triggering an autonegotia-
     tion:

	   ifconfig re0 media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex,flag0

SEE ALSO
     intro(4), miibus(4), ifconfig(8)

FreeBSD ports 15.quarterly	January 16, 2011		       RGEPHY(4)

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