On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Erik E. Fair wrote:

> cs0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>         media: Ethernet 10baseT full-duplex
> ...
> This is puzzling, because "media" says "full-duplex" but "flags" still says
> "SIMPLEX" (shouldn't this bit disappear?).

No, that's entirely different. SIMPLEX in the flags says that you
can't hear your own transmissions,  so you have to keep a copy for
yourself. (This is so you can see your own packets if you're packet
sniffing, or whatever.)

cjs
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