SIOCGIFMEDIA problems

[Doug Ambrisko]

Sebastien Petit writes:
| Hi -net hackers,
| 
| A little question about SIOCGIFMEDIA ioctl:
| Somebody reports me that some interfaces (bge / em but anothers perhaps) 
| seem to discard packet(s) during SIOCGIFMEDIA ioctl, Is it true and why ?

Doing status checks will cause input/output errors to be reported.
I assume that means those packets are lost.

Doug A.