Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 22:15:52 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: dg@root.com Cc: rohit@cs.UMD.EDU, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Giant Sized Ethernet Packets Message-ID: <199609190515.WAA01167@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 18 Sep 1996 22:07:26 PDT." <199609190507.WAA01346@root.com>
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>From The Desk Of David Greenman : > >>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 2114 0 > >> >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. Hi David, I was basically referring to his second point: -- If not, would somebody know if this is possible with the above h/w at all? -- Which I interpret as if the hardware could at least support such operations in the event that the existing driver does not support such operations . Regards, Amancio
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