[Taking this off-bug] On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 02:52:53AM -0500, Robert Edmonds wrote: > btw, (unrelated to #537271), it seems to me that 3 seconds is a fairly > short value for NETCFG_LINK_WAIT_TIME. i'm pretty sure i've seen > link-up take longer than that on occasion before, depending on NIC > chipset, switch, autonegotiation latency, etc.
I've been led to believe by people who should know (a Linux netdev maintainer) that autonegotiation *should* take on the order of 500ms. > 5 - 10 seconds would be > a more conservative default, given that there's no penalty if link-up > occurs before the timeout. Sure, there's no penalty is link-up occurs, but what about all the people for whom link-up doesn't occur -- say, because they're on a wireless link, or their chipset doesn't work right, or it's trying on a link that isn't actually up? Every delay screws them over more and more. - Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
