From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Dec 13 20:54:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20A5D37B419 for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 20:54:09 -0800 (PST) Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.11.0/8.11.0) id fBE4rmo14358; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 20:53:48 -0800 Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 20:53:48 -0800 From: Brooks Davis To: Juha Saarinen Cc: David Greenman , Dimitry Andric , Sergey Matveychuk , Jonathan Lemon , "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: fxp half-duplex problemm Message-ID: <20011213205348.A13483@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <20011213202106.B78956@nexus.root.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="bg08WKrSYDhXBjb5" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from juha@saarinen.org on Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 05:48:43PM +1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --bg08WKrSYDhXBjb5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 05:48:43PM +1300, Juha Saarinen wrote: > On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, David Greenman wrote: >=20 > > There needs to be a "half-duplex" option to make this explicitly > > clear in the configuration. >=20 > It's a bit pendatic, really, but surely it should be "simplex" and not > "half-duplex"? The option name is half-duplex. However, if you read the ifmedia manpage in NetBSD (which we should import) they state that you should never mediaopts for say, full-duplex and half-duplex on the same device. Options are only there to represent non-default states which in ethernet is full-duplex, at least from a theoretical perspective. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --bg08WKrSYDhXBjb5 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8GYXcXY6L6fI4GtQRAsyfAKDM6g94UGh/pBUyjgeL++syn5HW0wCgxwA8 FcJkt+AH5pAuDpFT2IA4FjI= =6Q8G -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --bg08WKrSYDhXBjb5-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message