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Subject: Re: dmesg of 2.5.45 boot on NFS client
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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   From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
   Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 08:29:13 -0800 (PST)

   On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Jeff Garzik wrote:
   
   | Addressing only this specific issue, and not the larger $thread issue...
   |
   | Depends on what driver and version you are using.  It is preferred these
   | days to force the media using ethtool.
   
   That's news to me.  "preferred" by whom?  certainly not by real users ??
   It should just work.
   
ethtool is the preferred way to modify any ethernet device parameter
whatsoever.  It is the king of net device APIs for such operations.

Franks a lot,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com