LOL, ya, I have one of those switches that takes that long, a Dell 5224, takes some getting used to when you're used to back to back speeds :)
There hasn't been any crying for this feature so I'm disinclined, however if more than 1 or two want it I would reconsider. Jack On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 11:36 PM, <per...@pluto.rain.com> wrote: > Jack Vogel <jfvo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > There are pros and cons either way you do things. I was talking > > to some of our Linux crew, they recently changed things so it > > would shut down the phy, but that doesn't always make everyone > > happy either. > > In particular, depending on the type of switch and how it is > configured, it may take 30 seconds or so after link is restored for > the switch to do spanning-tree validation before it will start to > pass traffic. > > There may be something to be said for making the driver's behavior > configurable. > _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
