On 12/7/05, jamal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is possible it will help some traffic setups to turn it on, however, > forever you had it as off. So people who need it know how to turn it on. > The sudden change of behavior that was questionable and btw it is not > documented either.
Well it's actually always been there. The Flow Control settings have been contained in the EEPROM for ever. The driver however was been ignoring the setting. The driver is now following the EEPROM settings. So while it appear a change in behavior, it's really just a bug fix that has changed it. The reason behind having an EEPROM setting is so that different NICs and LOMs can have different default behavior based on use. So NICs used for desktops and laptops and it enabled by default and NICs used in communication servers would not have it if they were being used for routing purposes. This is also why having mechanisms to turn it off are needed. Hope this make sense. -- Cheers, John - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
