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From: Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: Calling m_pullup in ether_input
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On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 11:51:17PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
G> Not really.  Just trying to see if there _was_ any packet loss first.
G> After running for several hours, the counters are still zero.  I think
G> this means the case of dropped packets would be so rare that there's no
G> real reason to worry too much about lost packets.

<skip>

G> I'll keep this change in my workstation for a week or so.  No signs of
G> dropped packets yet, though.

It'll be interesting to run this patch on different Ethernet hardware.
On the other thought, if we have a driver that loses packets we probably
should already have a PR filed :)

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