Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 20:13:12 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: rohit@cs.UMD.EDU Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Giant Sized Ethernet Packets Message-ID: <199609190313.UAA00670@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 18 Sep 1996 22:33:53 EDT." <199609190233.WAA18658@darling.cs.UMD.EDU>
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Sure you can send and receive "giant packets" using the smc 10/100 if memory does not fail me the SMC EtherPower (10mbit only) works event better. Just dig around A NetBSD ftp site for technical info on the DEC chipsets. Julian and I work together on the ability to receive big packets packets upto 15Kb for TRW Financial systems. The system is a FreeBSD box using SMC Etherpower 10/100. Julian made the interesting observation that perhaps with todays fast computers and PCI it is probably not worth the effort to extend ethernet in such a way. Regards, Amancio >From The Desk Of rohit@cs.UMD.EDU : > > Hi, > > I was wondering if it is possible to send giant sized ethernet packets (>1500 > bytes say 1550) using the current 'de' driver for the SMC 10/100 DEC 21140 > cards. > > If not, would somebody know if this is possible with the above h/w > at all? > > Any pointers to other h/w over which giant packets are possible would > be appreciated. > > Thanks in advance. > > Rohit. > (rohit@cs.umd.edu) > > PS: Please CC any repsonses to rohit@cs.umd.edu. I have limited internet > connectivity and therefore am currently not subscribed to the > hackers list. >
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