Messages in this thread |  | | From | Keith Owens <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Configuring synchronous interfaces in Linux | Date | Sun, 03 Dec 2000 11:20:46 +1100 |
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On Sat, 2 Dec 2000 13:07:29 -0600 (CST), Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com> wrote: >If yes, my guess is correct, I think the proper solution is to: >* create a generic set_config, which does nothing but convert the calls' >semantics into ethtool semantics, and >* add ethtool support to the specific driver
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If you go down this path, please add a standard performance monitoring method to query the current capacity of an interface. It is frustrating to report "eth0 is handling 1 Megabyte/second, but we cannot tell if that is 90% (10BaseT) or 9% (100BaseT) utilization". We should report capacity rather than speed because speed alone is not the controlling factor, other things like half or full duplex affect the capacity.
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