Re: [RFC] Configuring synchronous interfaces in Linux

[Chris Wedgwood <cw@xxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 10:01:24AM +0100, Francois romieu wrote:

    > Questions:
    > - Is there any existing _standard_ interface to do that??
    
    No.

[...]

    > I'm interested in implementing this, but I don't want to reinvent the
    > wheel (if such wheel exists ...).
    
    Ditto.


Actually; Ethernet badly needs something like this too. I would kill
to be able to do something like:

        ifconfig eth0 speed 100 duplex full

o across different networks cards -- I've been thinking about it of
late as I had to battle with this earlier this week; depending on
what network card you use, you need different magic incarnations to
do the above.

A standard interface is really needed; unless anyone objects I may
look at drafting something up -- but it will require some input if it
is not to look completely Ethernet centric.



  --cw