Re: Off-topic : Network Driver Link Status

From: Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com)
Date: Tue May 02 2000 - 12:41:19 EST

kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru wrote:
> because even existence tx_timeout assumes that there is no reliable
> link state monitoring on the device.

A tx timeout doesn't necessarily imply a link state change... It
often implies a driver bug too :) 

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Jeff Garzik              | Nothing cures insomnia like the
Building 1024            | realization that it's time to get up.
MandrakeSoft, Inc.       |        -- random fortune

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