Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f54IhJW15915 for netdev-outgoing; Mon, 4 Jun 2001 11:43:19 -0700 Received: from havoc.gtf.org (IDENT:postfix@panic.ohr.gatech.edu [130.207.47.194]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id f54IhIh15908 for ; Mon, 4 Jun 2001 11:43:18 -0700 Received: from mandrakesoft.com (adsl-20-73-169.asm.bellsouth.net [66.20.73.169]) by havoc.gtf.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47BA31F74; Mon, 4 Jun 2001 14:43:11 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3B1BD6C0.9F54047E@mandrakesoft.com> Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 14:43:12 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik Organization: MandrakeSoft X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.5 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bogdan Costescu Cc: jamal , Alan Cox , Pete Zaitcev , Linux Kernel Mailing List , netdev@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) systems (forrealthis References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-netdev@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Content-Length: 697 Lines: 18 Bogdan Costescu wrote: > > On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, jamal wrote: > > > Still, the tx watchdogs are a good source of fault detection in the case > > of non-availabilty of MII detection and even with the presence of MII. > > Agreed. But my question was a bit different: is there any legit situation > where Tx timeouts can happen in a row _without_ having a link loss ? In > this situation, we'd have false positives... yes -- Jeff Garzik | Echelon words of the day, from The Register: Building 1024 | FRU Lebed HALO Spetznaz Al Amn al-Askari Glock 26 MandrakeSoft | Steak Knife Kill the President anarchy echelon | nuclear assassinate Roswell Waco World Trade Center