Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 20:53:48 -0800 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Juha Saarinen <juha@saarinen.org> Cc: David Greenman <dg@root.com>, Dimitry Andric <dim@xs4all.nl>, Sergey Matveychuk <sem@ciam.ru>, Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com>, "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: fxp half-duplex problemm Message-ID: <20011213205348.A13483@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.WNT.4.40.0112141747500.1640-100000@den2>; from juha@saarinen.org on Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 05:48:43PM %2B1300 References: <20011213202106.B78956@nexus.root.com> <Pine.WNT.4.40.0112141747500.1640-100000@den2>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 05:48:43PM +1300, Juha Saarinen wrote: > On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, David Greenman wrote: > > > There needs to be a "half-duplex" option to make this explicitly > > clear in the configuration. > > 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 -- 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 [-- Attachment #2 --] -----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-----
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