Re: changes to make ethernet packets able to be unaligned...

From: Sten Spans (sten_at_blinkenlights.nl)
Date: 03/19/05

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To: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>

    On Fri, 18 Mar 2005, Mike Silbersack wrote:

    >
    > On Fri, 18 Mar 2005, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
    >
    > Well, right now most (all?) drivers handle the alignment issue, so moving the
    > alignment step into the ethernet code would centralize it in one place, and
    > would not break anything. Removing the alignment requirement without
    > actually having tested all the protocols is going to break something. Having
    > the protocols handle alignment themselves is a good goal, but that's a second
    > step you can take later.

    em with jumboframes is borken atm.
    It seems some drivers don't handle the jumboframes -
    chained mbufs case quite correctly. 

    -- 
Sten Spans
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