Bug report, as much information as I can give...

[Donald Becker]

On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Winged Wolf wrote:

> This is interesting... MII transceiver has status 7869, then status 786d.
> It appears to be stuck now on 786d.  (This is in the log.)

This is interpreted by 'mii-diag'.

The 'link beat' bit is a "sticky bit".
If you lost link beat in the past, it reports no link beat.
You have to read it twice to get the current status.

I'll answer the other questions in directed email to reduce the list traffic.

Donald Becker
Scyld Computing Corporation, and
USRA-CESDIS,   becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov