On Wed, Aug 03, 2022 at 04:40:14PM +0200, Alexandra Winter wrote: > Speed, duplex, port type and link mode can change, after the physical link > goes down (STOPLAN) or the card goes offline If the link is down, speed, and duplex are meaningless. They should be set to DUPLEX_UNKNOWN, SPEED_UNKNOWN. There is no PORT_UNKNOWN, but generally, it does not change on link up, so you could set this depending on the hardware type. Andrew