Configuring flow control for network interfaces
John Baldwin
jhb at freebsd.org
Tue May 18 17:16:51 UTC 2010
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
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?
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John Baldwin
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