Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 21:29:48 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: dg@root.com Cc: Bill Paul <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to handle jumbo etherney frames Message-ID: <36D0DD3C.FD6086D6@softweyr.com> References: <199902220110.RAA15394@implode.root.com>
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David Greenman wrote:
>
> >Programming the chip to use a single vlan tag wouldn't require that much
> >work.
>
> Whether to use a VLAN and/or which VLAN to use is a per destination thing,
> not a per host/interface thing, so I don't think a single VLAN would be
> very useful.
Unless you use a smart switch that does that for you, in which case you
can use any (supported by the switch) frame type you want, with or
without tags.
> >I'm not really inclined to just implement only standard frame support
> >and wait around for large mbuf cluster support to materialize since there's
> >no telling how long that could take. I think I may be stuck between a
>
> Then implement large mbuf support. :-)
That would certainly be "the best" way to handle it. That *and* a
zero-copy interface to userland.
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Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
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