On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 15:22 -0400, sowmini.varadhan at sun.com wrote:
> On (08/21/07 10:03), Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> >
> > This whole arena is a bit of a mess, and I'm not entirely sure we've
> > quite got it right...
>
> A related question:
>
> in the ieee802.3(5) man page, we have:
>
> link_pause ..
>
>
> if link_asmpause = 1
>
> 1 The local station will honor
> received pause frames by temporarily
> suspending transmit of further
> frames.
>
>
> why is this only Rx pause? shouldn't this be bidirectional? Is
> this yet another error in that man page?
One would expect that if symmetric pause was negotiated then
link_asmpause would be 0.
-- Garrett
>
> --Sowmini
>
>
