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Subject: Re: Giant Sized Ethernet Packets 
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Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 20:13:12 -0700
From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
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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
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