Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Wed, 20 Dec 2006 22:15:44 +0100 (MET) | From | Stefan Rompf <> | 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.
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