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From: Vaibhave Agarwal <vaibhave@cs.utah.edu>
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Subject: carrier sensing in fxp drivers  
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hi
In ieee 802.3 CSMA/CD, is it possible that i could check a register value
set by hardware card or by some other way i could detect in the driver, as
soon as the card senses that there is a packet on the wire ( i.e. even
before the reception of the whole packet).

Anybody's help would be highly appreciated.
thanks
vaibhave