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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [e1000]: flow control on by default - good idea really?
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 23:59:09 -0700 (PDT)
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From: jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 09:03:38 -0400

> On Wed, 2006-05-07 at 22:45 +0200, Krzysztof Oledzki wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, 5 Jul 2006, Auke Kok wrote:
> > 
> > > David Miller wrote:
> > >> From: jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>
> > >> Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 15:20:39 -0400
> > >> 
> > >>> BTW, As an addendum this default behavior changed around 2.6.16 it
> > >>> seems.
> > >> 
> > >> Flow control has been on by default in the tg3 driver since the
> > >> beginning, 
> 
> Are you sure about this Dave?;-> because I do have a tg3 on my laptop.
> 
> hadi@jzny2:~/Desktop/maemo$ sudo ethtool -a eth0
> Pause parameters for eth0:
> Autonegotiate:  on
> RX:             off
> TX:             off

It's autonegotiated, check you kernel message logs when the link
came up, you'll see this:

tg3: eth0: Flow control is on for TX and on for RX.

Take care.