Disable Exponential Backoff (retry) on Ethernet?

[Antony Mawer]

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