[brussels-dev] [networking-discuss] [driver-discuss] [sysadmin-discuss] pausel bits setting within Solaris

[Garrett D'Amore]

On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 15:22 -0400, sowmini.varadhan at sun.com wrote:
> On (08/21/07 10:03), Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> > 
> > This whole arena is a bit of a mess, and I'm not entirely sure we've
> > quite got it right...
> 
> A related question:
> 
> in the ieee802.3(5) man page, we have:
> 
>      link_pause          ..
> 
> 
>                         if link_asmpause = 1
> 
>                         1    The   local   station   will   honor
>                              received pause frames by temporarily
>                              suspending   transmit   of   further
>                              frames.
> 
> 
> why is this only Rx pause? shouldn't this be bidirectional? Is
> this yet another error in that man page?

One would expect that if symmetric pause was negotiated then
link_asmpause would be 0.

	-- Garrett

> 
> --Sowmini
> 
>