From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 18 22:16:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA15223 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 22:16:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [204.188.121.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA15165 for ; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 22:16:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA01167; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 22:15:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199609190515.WAA01167@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.9 8/22/96 To: dg@root.com cc: rohit@cs.UMD.EDU, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Giant Sized Ethernet Packets In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 18 Sep 1996 22:07:26 PDT." <199609190507.WAA01346@root.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 22:15:52 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >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