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From: Glen Turner <glen.turner@aarnet.edu.au>
Subject: Re: RFC: PHY Abstraction Layer II
Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2005 05:59:20 +0930
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Operationally, it would be very useful if the PHY printed
the physical interface detail when detected (1000Base-LX,
etc).

Also, it would be nice to be able to retrieve PHY data
independent of the interface status (eg, to retrieve
asset serial numbers, GBIC make/models, etc).

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