Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 05:15:29 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: Rohit Dube <rohit@cs.UMD.EDU> Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@current1.whistle.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Giant Sized Ethernet Packets Message-ID: <199609191215.FAA01452@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 19 Sep 1996 07:44:51 EDT." <199609191144.HAA19867@darling.cs.UMD.EDU>
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>From The Desk Of Rohit Dube : > I will give that a shot as soon as my internal network is up. > However as dg@root.com (David) mentioned, this could create a problem. > Well, about giving away patches thats up to Julian and TRW ... I would start by connecting two FreeBSD boxes using UTP. Because other devices in your network may not be able to support the non-standard 802.3 packet sizes. Just play with the driver if you are under 4kb packets you should be okay -- the dec chipsets for both the 10 mbit and the 10/100 mbit chipset have a bug in that they can't handle buffers greater than 2k for the 10mbit chipset and 4k for the 10/100 mbit chipset-- It is a long story however I am sure Julian can elaborate how to get around this problem if anyone cares to transmit / receive 15kb packets 8) I don't have the code with me -- I usually leave my client's code at their site. Have fun, Amancio P.S.: I may be able to help you next week when my P6 200 gets in -- that is I will have two FreeBSD boxes .
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