From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Jun 20 10:22:17 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 C265E37B5E5 for ; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 10:22:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr01.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA25343 for ; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 10:21:29 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr01.primenet.com(206.165.6.201) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAPnaWCX; Tue Jun 20 10:21:25 2000 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr01.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA19309 for arch@freebsd.org; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 10:22:04 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200006201722.KAA19309@usr01.primenet.com> Subject: Software detection of link integrity To: arch@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 17:22:04 +0000 (GMT) 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 [ ... as some have noted, I blew the subject line on this ... ] 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