Mihnea-Costin Grigore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Guenther Wieser wrote:
> 
> > Re: Connection speed
> 
> > AFAIK this is normal. When a transmission starts, the two clients set
> > the speed to whatever the maximum is for this connection.
> 
>      Thanks for clearing that up for me... Now, there would be another thing that I 
>don't quite
> understand. Whenever I do an "ifconfig irda0", I notice a lot of TX packets, even 
>when I'm not using
> IrDA. Is this normal, as a result of the driver continously seeking another IrDA 
>device to connect
> to, or is there something wrong?

You can control this by setting or resetting
/proc/sys/net/irda/discovery. When you do irattach -s 1, irattach will set
this variable to 1 and discovery starts. If you don't like it then you can
set it to 0.

-- Dag

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