[brussels-dev] [networking-discuss] [driver-discuss] pausel bits setting within Solaris

[Raymond LI - Sun Microsystems - Beijing China]

Joost Mulders wrote:
>> Could we introduce below property into Brussels while keeping current 
>> IEEE802.3 defination? Having a property named "ether-flow-ctrl", which has
>> below possible values:
>>
>> ether-flow-ctrl = 0: Disable pause frame flow control
>> ether-flow-ctrl = 1: Enable just Rx flow control
>> ether-flow-ctrl = 2: Enable just Tx flow control
>> ether-flow-ctrl = 3: Enable both Rx/Tx flow control
>>     
>
> Interesting reading on this subject:
>   http://hardware.mcse.ms/message13052.html
>
> Flow control per direction is a far better concept than what we offer 
> now. I would love to see it implemented.
>
> Regards, Joost
>   
I think we need a friendly UI for pause setting, while keeping the 
ieee802.3 tunable as many as
possible. I wonder some users may really tweak these value, isn't it?