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Date:      Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:37:41 -0700
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
To:        David Christensen <davidch@broadcom.com>
Cc:        "pyunyh@gmail.com" <pyunyh@gmail.com>, "freebsd-net@freebsd.org" <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>, Andrey Zonov <andrey@zonov.org>, "davidch@freebsd.org" <davidch@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: bce: jumbo not working since r218423
Message-ID:  <CAJ-VmokfS0r-aWOqOX6_CgUhuigyT9rLet8Tai2yA9qWEDpFhg@mail.gmail.com>
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On 27 April 2012 16:08, David Christensen <davidch@broadcom.com> wrote:

> The intent was to pass compliance tests such as those performed at UNH
> by limiting the MTU to the size allowed by the IEEE 802.3 specification.
> (No one likes explaining such failures to customers.) =A0As you indicate,=
 real
> world applications benefit from loose compliance on RX so a single
> tunable is all that's intended to enable/disable the behavior.

May I suggest (if it isn't already) documenting this in the driver
manpage? that way it's not forgotten by some future hacker and removed
for being "useless" ? :-)

Thanks!



Adrian



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