On Wednesday, February 09, 2011 12:00:29 pm Otavio Salvador wrote: > On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 09:57, Matthew Palmer <[email protected]> wrote: > > Sure, there's no penalty is link-up occurs, but what about all the people > > for whom link-up doesn't occur -- say, because they're on a wireless > > link, or their chipset doesn't work right, or it's trying on a link that > > isn't actually up? Every delay screws them over more and more. > > It seems we have a trade-off here. > > I think the decision depends on the number of affected users:
I think the decision should depend on the consequences instead. The consequence of a longer wait is just that. You have a few seconds wasted, if link detection does not work properly on your hardware. The consequence of a not long enough wait, is that Debian will simply fail to install over the network. I think the wait time may be longer on the newer generation of power efficient switches that power off ports that are not in use. Takes 3 full seconds here in practice (HP 2410G rackmount switch). -- Yours sincerely, Floris Bos -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
