On 29 Sep 2014, at 19:58, Stuart Henderson <st...@openbsd.org> wrote:
> On 2014/09/26 22:49, Reyk Floeter wrote: >> Taking the interface down shouldn't change the link / media state on >> Ethernet interfaces (at least with modern drivers). > > Hmm - that is interesting and definitely not what I would expect. i think it is generally true though. most of our drivers negotiate and report link state even if the software side isnt up. that is generally different to how most other operating systems do it. is/was there a good reason for this? dlg
