From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 19 02:15:36 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA03646 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 02:15:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from orion.webspan.net (root@orion.webspan.net [206.154.70.41]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA03632 for ; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 02:15:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (gpalmer@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by orion.webspan.net (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id FAA27180; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 05:15:08 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: orion.webspan.net: Host gpalmer@localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: rohit@cs.UMD.EDU cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: Giant Sized Ethernet Packets In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 18 Sep 1996 22:33:53 EDT." <199609190233.WAA18658@darling.cs.UMD.EDU> Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 05:15:07 -0400 Message-ID: <27177.843124507@orion.webspan.net> Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk rohit@cs.UMD.EDU wrote in message ID <199609190233.WAA18658@darling.cs.UMD.EDU>: > 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. You can't without violating the IEE 802.3 specs for Ethernet, from what I remember. To go to larger packet sizes use FDDI. Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info