Subject: Re: please test: ethernet media-handling patch
To: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 01/11/2008 04:49:11
On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 12:04:00 -0500
"Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> wrote:
>
> David Young <dyoung@pobox.com> writes:
> > nfe(4), aue(4), axe(4), udav(4), url(4): do not reset all PHYs
> > on a change of media
>
> So if I unplug a cable from a 100M network and put it into a 1G
> network, it won't reset and renegotiate? (Forgive me if I don't
> understand this properly.)
>
It doesn't do that properly now...
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb