Re: half-/full-duplex ethernet and ifconfig

[Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

> Yes.  I firmly believe that allowing "hardwired" setting of duplex
> and speed is insane.  If it ever solves a problem, the problem should
> be solved at the other end of the link, instead.

I have seen cases where NetBSD's taking this stance would simply render
it useless, even if it is abstractly correct.  There are cases where it
is important to interoperate with a particular device, even if it is
broken, and broken autoneg, while less common than it once was, is
hardly unheard of.

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