Steven Stallion writes: > > Right, see > > http://gdamore.blogspot.com/2008/08/why-you-dont-want-to-force-link-modes.html > > for my most recent rant on this particular topic. > > I'm suddenly reminded of hours spent in the lab years ago trying to get a > PIX and ProCurve to play nice... > > It really sounds like this behavior could be abstracted out and placed > into a capability. Essentially all you would really need is a couple of > utility functions to simplify exposing a set of adv_ props, and to read > (in order of 802.3 precedence) a set of config modes.
I'm not sure what "capability" means here, but I do agree with you that having an analysis tool that reads the various stable configuration and status bits and produces a human-ready report (along with a diagnosis) would be extremely useful -- and not terribly hard to write. This is something that's been discussed more than once ... -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
