Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 17:22:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Software detection of link integrity Message-ID: <200006201722.KAA19309@usr01.primenet.com>
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[ ... as some have noted, I blew the subject line on this ... ] FWIW, I ran into a use for being able to tell from software whether the link integrity on an ethernet card was valid or not. My question is, I know my hardware can report it, but is this a general feature of most ethernet cards? I know that Intel 82558 and 82559 cards can tell you by you looking at bit 2 of MDI register #1 (if the bit is lit, so is the blinky light hidden at the back of your rack). Would this be a useful thing to build into ifconfig? I don't know how many of you find yourself crawling behind stacks of hardware to look for the blinky lights... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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