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Subject: Re: Media types in ifconfig
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On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 4:53 PM, Eric Joyner <ricera10@gmail.com> wrote:
> So, what are the two fields on the media line for?
>
> AFAICT, it looks like the first field is the media the user wants to use
> (so the driver typically sets it to Ethernet autoselect by default?), and
> the
> second field is for the media that's active in the interface.

Aren't those "type" and "subtype"?
sys/net/if_media.h has more info.

cheers,
Hiren