Configuring flow control for network interfaces
John Baldwin
jhb at freebsd.org
Tue May 18 17:58:37 UTC 2010
On Tuesday 18 May 2010 1:30:32 pm Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 01:15:37PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> > I think it would be useful if we could pick a device-independent interface
for
> > configuring flow control on network interfaces, perhaps as media options
via
> > ifconfig. I know that the msk(4) driver allows RX and TX flow control to
be
> > toggled via the link0 and link1 flags (the manpage for msk(4) needs
updating
> > on this topic I think). I have a hack for work to disable TX flow control
on
>
> The hack used in e1000phy(4), brgphy(4) and ip1000phy(4) should be
> removed.
>
> > cxgb(4), but it doesn't use flow control currently. Is flow control
ethernet-
> > specific? If so, perhaps we could add two new flags for RX and TX flow
> > control to the Ethernet-specific options in that case? Do folks have
other
> > ideas?
> >
>
> AFAIK marius@ is working on it and may have latest patches.
>
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John Baldwin
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