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From: Peter Stuge <peter@stuge.se>
To: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
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Subject: Re: [git pull] FireWire fixes
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Stefan Richter wrote:
> > Cable disconection/reconnection still results in the link loss till
> > ifconfig down/up.
> 
> Surely a higher-level problem somewhere in firewire-net.

How to deal with cable glitch? The cable might as well never be
attached again. A timeout? How long? There's a timeout also in SBP-2 IIRC?


//Peter