> 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.

-- 
meem

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