From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Feb 21 20:31:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (unknown [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6DC011E0D for ; Sun, 21 Feb 1999 20:30:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (zaphod.softweyr.com [204.68.178.35]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA10259; Sun, 21 Feb 1999 21:29:49 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <36D0DD3C.FD6086D6@softweyr.com> Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 21:29:48 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr llc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dg@root.com Cc: Bill Paul , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to handle jumbo etherney frames References: <199902220110.RAA15394@implode.root.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message