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From: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@ambrisko.com>
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Subject: Re: SIOCGIFMEDIA problems
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Sebastien Petit writes:
| Hi -net hackers,
| 
| A little question about SIOCGIFMEDIA ioctl:
| Somebody reports me that some interfaces (bge / em but anothers perhaps) 
| seem to discard packet(s) during SIOCGIFMEDIA ioctl, Is it true and why ?

Doing status checks will cause input/output errors to be reported.
I assume that means those packets are lost.

Doug A.