Am Mittwoch, 20. Dezember 2006 16:34 schrieb Arjan van de Ven: > 5 seconds is unfair and unrealistic though. The *hardware* negotiation > before link is seen can easily take upto 45 seconds already. > That's a network topology/hardware issue (spanning tree fun) that > software or even the hardware in your PC can do nothing about.
Spanning tree decides whether or not a port forwards traffic. It has nothing to do with link beat detection and autonegotation, so it shouldn't be an issue here. Stefan - 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
