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Date:      Wed, 18 Sep 1996 22:07:26 -0700
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
Cc:        rohit@cs.UMD.EDU, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Giant Sized Ethernet Packets 
Message-ID:  <199609190507.WAA01346@root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 18 Sep 1996 21:49:57 PDT." <199609190449.VAA01049@rah.star-gate.com> 

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>>From The Desk Of David Greenman :
>> >I was wondering if it is possible to send giant sized ethernet packets (>150
>0
>> >bytes say 1550) using the current 'de' driver for the SMC 10/100 DEC 21140 
>> >cards.
>> 
>>    No.
>
>Sorry, the answer is yes.... Is just that Julian and I did this on the
>contractual committment and if anybody knows the procedure to integrate
>or release the code is Julian.

   The current 'de' driver does NOT support sending larger than 1500 byte
frames. If you have patches or something, then that's another thing - but
that's not what was asked.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project



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