JJZolx;499432 Wrote: > No, you don't need to 'ask' during setup. You just make it available in > network settings without making users jump through hoops. It would have > been easier to implement in the first place by not needing to check > whether the connection is up.
Then we are in violent agreement that such a setting would be nice to have. But it's also nice, if someone is choosing wireless setup while they have the ethernet port connected, to ask if they're trying to bridge because it makes an awful lot of sense in that context. At the time I guess we overestimated the likelihood of the ethernet link status being a reliable indicator of the user's intent. It would have worked a heck of a lot better if the PHYs were auto-MDIX in those days. There's another question here as to why bridging isn't just enabled all the time, which would make this whole issue moot. Mainly the problem there is making sure to have reliable loop detection, which SB3 does not have, making it easy for the unwitting user to take down his whole network. On the Linux-based products it might make more sense. -- seanadams ------------------------------------------------------------------------ seanadams's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72970 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
