Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 20:21:06 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Dimitry Andric <dim@xs4all.nl> Cc: Sergey Matveychuk <sem@ciam.ru>, Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fxp half-duplex problemm Message-ID: <20011213202106.B78956@nexus.root.com> In-Reply-To: <18354777165.20011214052224@xs4all.nl>; from dim@xs4all.nl on Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 05:22:24AM %2B0100 References: <local.mail.freebsd-stable/5.1.0.14.0.20011210162739.01c08a50@marble.sentex.ca> <200112122035.fBCKZBJ62726@prism.flugsvamp.com> <002901c183c9$659763d0$0a2da8c0@sem> <20011213102230.A75383@nexus.root.com> <16453339468.20011214045827@xs4all.nl> <20011213200046.A78956@nexus.root.com> <18354777165.20011214052224@xs4all.nl>
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>Well, in the case of fxp(4), the man page is quite clear: > > The fxp driver supports the following media options: > > full-duplex Set full duplex operation > >(end of list) > >It doesn't really make sense to have separate options for half and >full duplex, because they are mutually exclusive anyway. So one of >them was dropped. I'm not sure, but it seems to be the case with all >NIC drivers using the common miibus code. I agree that the two options are mutually exclusive, but I don't agree that it doesn't make sense to have both. It's not clear if there is a default or what it defaults to or when such a default is relevant. There needs to be a "half-duplex" option to make this explicitly clear in the configuration. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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