On Tue, 04 May 1999 14:25:29 -0700 
 Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU> wrote:

 > >For the de cards, it can be done in software.  BSDI and Digital Unix's
 > >driver does this.
 > 
 > My understanding is that NWay is done at the PHY level.  The internal
 > PHY on the 2114x (at least low values of x) doesn't do NWay.
 > 
 > You can do a software FSM to send a packet figure out if what you send
 > comes back or not, at full-duplex or 100mbit, but that's not the same
 > as out-of-band signalling between the two PHY chips.

Um:

	(1) that is NOT "Nway autonegotiation" (as defined by IEEE 802.3u)

	(2) that FSM is _precisely_ what our de driver does right now.
	    It also happens to wedge the driver in OACTIVE from time
	    to time.

        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>