On (06/18/07 13:06), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>> The very idea of directly setting the link-speed and link-duplex is one
>> that I'm uncomfortable with. This hides important details, such as
>> whether the mode is forced, or is it an 802.3u negotiated speed?
>
>
> I'm sure that solving this is just a simple matter of code...
To some extent. And to some extent it is the user-interface we
want to present via dladm. The ieee802.3(5) definition enumerates all the
(speed, duplex) possibilities for MII, e.g., 1000fdx, 1000hdx, 100fdx,
100hdx etc. otoh, on a laptop with functionial wifi, I get,
among other things:
LINK PROPERTY VALUE DEFAULT POSSIBLE
:
wpi0 speed 54 --
1,2,5.5,6,9,11,12,18,24,36,48,54
I'm not sure which is preferable, but, since some interfaces like
bge (rightly or wrongly) have the concept of "transfer-speed" as a
driver.conf property, I chose to separate speed and duplex.
Let me ask the question another way: by setting speed and duplex separately,
is it actually possible to hit a permutation that would not happen
with the predefined <speed>{f,h}dx definition?
--Sowmini
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