On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 01:37:21PM -0700, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> Al Hopper wrote:
> >>Casper.Dik at Sun.COM wrote:
> >
> >You seem to be missing the point - syslogging the interface name with 
> >speed and duplicity is useful in a couple of very practical ways:
> >
> >[SNIPPED: three cases not needing speed and duplicity info]
> >
> >All these examples are when you're working on the physical hardware. 
> >It's much faster to do this than search the product specific docs - 
> >and you don't have product specific docs if you've built the box and 
> >neglected to label the ethernet ports from a Solaris perspective.
> 
> In all of these cases, you _do not_ need to know the link speed/duplex, 
> the "up" and "down" messages that I've proposed will address this need.

Yes, but others have given cases where speed and duplicity information
is useful.

> To re-state:
> 
>    * the link state change will be logged (going from down to up, or 
> vice versa), but the details of speed, duplex, channel, and other link 
> tunables will _not_ be part of the message that I've proposed.
> 
> Hope that answers this concern.

It doesn't.

Nico
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