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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: via-rhine unable to send back-to-back packets?
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 17:25:40 -0800
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On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 23:27:00 +0100
Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org> wrote:

> For example, when transmitting 300-byte packets, I can TX 38261 packets
> per second, but I should be able to TX ~38580.  When doing the math, it
> turns out that 38261 is exactly the number of 302-byte packets you can
> stuff into Fast Ethernet per second.

Is the packet length in those calculations taking into consideration
the CRC et al. bytes that the card adds to the packet?