On 25/10/2016 05:50, Vidya Sagar Ravipati wrote: > SET FEC option: > root@tor: ethtool --set-fec swp1 encoding [off | RS | BaseR | auto] autoneg > [off | on] > > Encoding: Types of encoding > Off : Turning off any encoding > RS : enforcing RS-FEC encoding on supported speeds > BaseR : enforcing Base R encoding on supported speeds > Auto : Default FEC settings for divers , and would represent
divers? :) > asking the hardware to essentially go into a best effort mode. > > Here are a few examples of what we would expect if encoding=auto: > - if autoneg is on, we are expecting FEC to be negotiated as on or off > as long as protocol supports it > - if the hardware is capable of detecting the FEC encoding on it's > receiver it will reconfigure its encoder to match > - in absence of the above, the configuration would be set to IEEE > defaults. Not sure I follow, why do we need an autoneg option if encoding type can be set to auto?
