  DE500 Negotiation and Duplex Settings? 
 The Question is:
 
I was asked to see if the communication from
the Alpha (which I manage) to the switch on
the network (managed by the network guys) be
made full duplex. ifconfig displays it is
working in simplex mode and there does not
seem to be an option in ifconfig to change it.
The switch (CISCO) is set to "auto-negotiate"
 
It is also communicating at 10mbps, Can this
be changed to 100mbps? The network card is a
DE500 capable of both 10/100mbps operation
 
Platform and software details:
 
Compaq TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS Alpha
Version V5.1 on a AlphaServer 1200 5/533 4MB
running OpenVMS V7.1-2
 
TCPIP&gt; ifconfig -a
LO0: flags=100c89&lt;UP,LOOPBACK,NOARP,MULTICAST,
                  SIMPLEX,NOCHECKSUM&gt;
     inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000 ipmtu 4096
 
TN0: flags=80&lt;NOARP&gt;
 
WE0: flags=c43&lt;UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,
               SIMPLEX&gt;
     inet 156.149.72.244 netmask ffff0000
     broadcast 156.149.255.255 ipmtu 1500
 
 The Answer is :
 
  Please see the OpenVMS FAQ section on Ethernet, IEEE 802.3, CSMA/CD
  negotiation and specifically on DE500 controller configuration.
  There are multiple DE500 controller variants available, and the FAQ
  covers this particular topic in some detail.
 
  For discussions of networking terminology common in this context and
  other related discussions, please see existing topics (4658), (3252),
  (4819), (6421), (7705), and various other topics.
 
 Answer written or last revised on  18-DEC-2002 
