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

[Sten Spans]

On Sun, 20 Mar 2005, Mike Silbersack wrote:

>
> On Sat, 19 Mar 2005, Sten Spans wrote:
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>> em with jumboframes is borken atm.
>> It seems some drivers don't handle the jumboframes -
>> chained mbufs case quite correctly.
>> 
>> -- 
>> Sten Spans
>
> Totally broken, or broken when used on non-i386 architectures?

Broken on alpha, I haven't had a chance to test other
!i386 architectures. But the same problem already has a
( posibly dirty ) fix in openbsd.

Alignment is only done for mtu 1500, so jumbo frames are
not aligned with causes problems on strict alignment architectures.

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=75794

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Sten Spans

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