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Date:      Mon, 22 Oct 2007 11:16:57 +1000
From:      Antony Mawer <fbsd-net@mawer.org>
To:        Len Gross <sandiegobiker@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Subject:   Re: Disable Exponential Backoff (retry) on Ethernet?
Message-ID:  <471BFA09.8060504@mawer.org>
In-Reply-To: <27cb3ada0710201647y5104bd1fge2540c5fc1e2b49c@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <27cb3ada0710172051t536a4d11pfdfdb079ebd98932@mail.gmail.com>	<20071019224155.GI20308@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>	<20071020183000.E8153@knop-beagle.kn.op.dlr.de>	<27cb3ada0710201108l5e717fdbhc9fab610cb2a047c@mail.gmail.com>	<471A6B72.2030305@elischer.org> <27cb3ada0710201647y5104bd1fge2540c5fc1e2b49c@mail.gmail.com>

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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



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