Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 22:15:44 +0100 (MET)
From: Stefan Rompf <stefan@loplof.de>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Network drivers that don't suspend on interface down
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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
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