Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list netdev); Wed, 01 Dec 2004 11:56:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from xi.wantstofly.org (alephnull.demon.nl [212.238.201.82]) by oss.sgi.com (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id iB1JuBrN024519 for ; Wed, 1 Dec 2004 11:56:12 -0800 Received: by xi.wantstofly.org (Postfix, from userid 500) id 5BE772B100; Wed, 1 Dec 2004 20:55:50 +0100 (MET) Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 20:55:50 +0100 From: Lennert Buytenhek To: Ben Greear Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: via-rhine unable to send back-to-back packets? Message-ID: <20041201195550.GC14470@xi.wantstofly.org> References: <20041129222700.GA22918@xi.wantstofly.org> <20041129172540.6b959858.davem@davemloft.net> <20041130064823.GA27872@xi.wantstofly.org> <41ACB0C3.5020408@candelatech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41ACB0C3.5020408@candelatech.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-archive-position: 12372 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com X-original-sender: buytenh@wantstofly.org Precedence: bulk X-list: netdev On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 09:41:23AM -0800, Ben Greear wrote: > >Yeah, preamble (8 bytes), CRC (4 bytes), inter-packet gap (12 bytes). > > > >Perhaps the via-rhine simply can't send out packets back-to-back and > >needs 14 byte times of inter-packet gap. I couldn't find any stray +2 > >in the driver anywhere but I'm just checking. > > Couldn't you just sniff the resulting traffic to see if it is too big? Sorry, forgot to mention: I did check that, and the data portion of the packet doesn't appear to be too big. --L