> Ah. See I'm thinking probably a layer down. In other words, I think
> the properties need to exist. How they are presented, is a different
> matter entirely.
>
> But, for what it is worth, for a typical 1G device, the list of modes
> will be quite a bit larger:
>
> CAPABLE
>
> 10M Half, 10M Full, 100M Half, 100M Full, 1G Half, 1G Full
That wouldn't look much worse -- e.g.:
LINK DUPLEX CAPABLE ADV PEERADV
bge0 half 10M,100M,1G 10M,100M,1G 10M,100M
bge0 full 10M,100M,1G 10M,100M,1G 10M,100M
> And then you get into *pause* and *master* negotiated bits as well. It
> gets really hard to simplify this well.
Yeah, I'm not sure where those would go. But it might be worth some
thought before falling back on ye olde 2 dozen knobs.
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meem