Re: [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) systems (forrealthis

From: Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com)
Date: Mon Jun 04 2001 - 13:43:12 EST


Bogdan Costescu wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, jamal wrote:
>
> > Still, the tx watchdogs are a good source of fault detection in the case
> > of non-availabilty of MII detection and even with the presence of MII.
>
> Agreed. But my question was a bit different: is there any legit situation
> where Tx timeouts can happen in a row _without_ having a link loss ? In
> this situation, we'd have false positives...

yes

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