Re: Disable Exponential Backoff (retry) on Ethernet?

On 21/10/2007 9:47 AM, Len Gross wrote:
May have found what I need.

lancereg.h references an AMD Ethernet chip that appears to have a register
you
can set to enable/disable retry. So, I would just have to find some
NICs that use this chip. A task for later in the project.

Thanks to all for the discussion.

The default NIC in VMware Workstation emulates this NIC using the lnc driver - I do not know how accurate the emulation is (eg. does the emulated NIC support this register), but it may provide another avenue to explore for your testing...

--Antony
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