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From: "Len Gross" <sandiegobiker@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Disable Exponential Backoff (retry) on Ethernet?
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Thanks. I'll look into that.
BTW: The "lance" chip appears to be 1990 vintage, might even be ISA


On 10/21/07, Antony Mawer <fbsd-net@mawer.org> wrote:
>
> On 21/10/2007 9:47 AM, Len Gross wrote:
> > May have found what I need.
> >
> > lancereg.h  references an AMD Ethernet chip that appears to have a
> register
> > you
> > can set to enable/disable retry.  So, I would just have to find some
> > NICs that use this chip.  A task for later in the project.
> >
> > Thanks to all for the discussion.
>
> The default NIC in VMware Workstation emulates this NIC using the lnc
> driver - I do not know how accurate the emulation is (eg. does the
> emulated NIC support this register), but it may provide another avenue
> to explore for your testing...
>
> --Antony
>