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

[Sten Spans]

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.

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Sten Spans

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