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Date:      Tue, 9 Feb 1999 13:47:32 -0800 (PST)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To:        Larry Lile <lile@stdio.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: NFS Alignment? was (Re: Why did this panic?)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.990209134651.5802I-100000@current1.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902091519290.14147-100000@heathers.stdio.com>

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ethernet headers are 14 bytes
they are trying to allign the IP header on a word boundary..

julian


On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Larry Lile wrote:

> 
> By the way, is the "m->m_data += 2;" still a neccesary evil to
> apease NFS?  I have always seen it in drivers but I never understood
> why it was there or if I really needed to follow it.  
> 
> from if_ed.c: 2727-2732
> 
>         /*
>          * The +2 is to longword align the start of the real packet.
>          * This is important for NFS.
>          */
>         m->m_data += 2;
>         eh = mtod(m, struct ether_header *);
> 
> Larry Lile
> lile@stdio.com
> 
> 


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