On Mon, 2011-03-28 at 06:17 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2011-03-28 01:17:18 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > You (or guessnet) are running ethtool immediately after ifconfig, or > > using some fixed delay. This is fundamentally unreliable as link > > negotation is *asynchronous*. > > > > The right way to find link state is to listen for link events using > > netlink, as Network Manager does. > > Thanks, this is OK via netplug (which is based on netlink).
So shall I close this again, or do you want to blame some other package now? > FYI, I was using ethtool because this is what some documentation > and software use (at least, this is the method used by wicd), and > the ethtool man page has no warnings about that. The ethtool manual page is not intended as a tutorial about Ethernet. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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