From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 22 13:37:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AFF31111F for ; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 13:37:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (xylan-mgw 2.2 [OUT])) id NAA10509; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 13:35:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from utah.XYLAN.COM by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id NAA24385; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 13:35:49 -0800 Received: from softweyr.com by utah.XYLAN.COM (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (xylan utah [SPOOL])) id OAA19958; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 14:35:45 -0700 Message-ID: <36D1CDAF.3ACDE687@softweyr.com> Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 14:35:43 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 2.2.7-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: <199902221353.FAA17708@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: > > >> >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's not even remotely funny. > > > >All I want to do is write a device driver. That's enough work as it is. > >You're the principal architect; _you_ implement large mbuf support. > > Wimp! :-) Go for it. It'll make you a hero with the Token Ring crowd, too. -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters +1.801.915.2061 Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message