Re: Off-topic : Network Driver Link Status

From: kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru
Date: Tue May 02 2000 - 09:26:14 EST


Hello!

> Let's see if I understood this right ...

You understood this right, I think.

> Any reasons for not doing this in a timer?

No reasons, if it is media selection timer.

If it is tx_timeout routine, this will not work,
because even existence tx_timeout assumes that there is no reliable
link state monitoring on the device.

Alexey

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