From owner-freebsd-net Wed May 16 9: 0:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from technokratis.com (modemcable052.174-202-24.mtl.mc.videotron.ca [24.202.174.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A986D37B423 for ; Wed, 16 May 2001 09:00:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bmilekic@technokratis.com) Received: (from bmilekic@localhost) by technokratis.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f4GGA0656415; Wed, 16 May 2001 12:10:00 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bmilekic) Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 12:10:00 -0400 From: Bosko Milekic To: raviprasad20@netscape.net Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Free BSD network buffers Message-ID: <20010516121000.A56387@technokratis.com> References: <4F2A777A.3AABE4DC.9513E96F@netscape.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <4F2A777A.3AABE4DC.9513E96F@netscape.net>; from raviprasad20@netscape.net on Wed, May 16, 2001 at 01:17:44AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 01:17:44AM -0400, raviprasad20@netscape.net wrote: > Hi, > > My doubt is whether mbuf's along with clusters will be used for large data sizes like 65536 bytes? If what you're talking about has to do with sending data over the network, we attach clusters (or other larger buffers) to mbufs. We won't fragment a huge load of data across 100 chained mbufs, for example (as that would be quite ridiculous). :-) > Kindly reply. > regards > ravi prasad > __________________________________________________________________ > Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Webmail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/ -- Bosko Milekic bmilekic@technokratis.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message