On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 13:12, Maksim Yevmenkin <maksim.yevmen...@gmail.com> wrote: > hello, > > i'm a little bit confused about if_baudrate. from system headers > > #define if_baudrate if_data.ifi_baudrate > > and > > u_long ifi_baudrate; /* linespeed */ > > so, i'm taking this as if_baudrate really should be an interface line > speed in megabits per second. am i correct? if so, then it appears > that at least some drivers lie about true line speed. for example from > ixgbe(4) > > ifp->if_baudrate = 1000000000; > > it looks like its order of magnitude lower (i.e. 1 gigabit per second > instead of 10 gigabits per second). am i missing something here or its > just a typo?
ixgbe's developer is excessively concerned about overflow on 32-bit hosts (and unwilling to correct it under a preprocessor conditional), unlike several of the other 10GbE driver developers, although I think one 10GbE driver opts to omit if_baudrate entirely. Thanks, Juli. _______________________________________________ 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"
