From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Jun 19 16:53:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B674137B806 for ; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 16:53:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr06.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA02359 for ; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 16:52:29 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr06.primenet.com(206.165.6.206) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpdAAA5LaGIe; Mon Jun 19 16:52:19 2000 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr06.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA03874 for arch@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 16:52:58 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200006192352.QAA03874@usr06.primenet.com> Subject: Re: (2nd iteration) New /dev/(random|null|zero) - review, please To: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 23:52:57 +0000 (GMT) In-Reply-To: from "Dag-Erling Smorgrav" at Jun 19, 2000 03:59:32 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG FWIW, I ran into a use for being able to tell from software whether the link integrity on an ethernet card was valid or not. My question is, I know my hardware can report it, but is this a general feature of most ethernet cards? I know that Intel 82558 and 82559 cards can tell you by you looking at bit 2 of MDI register #1 (if the bit is lit, so is the blinky light hidden at the back of your rack). Would this be a useful thing to build into ifconfig? I don't know how many of you find yourself crawling behind stacks of hardware to look for the blinky lights... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message