Re: Broadcom 5700/5701 Gigabit Ethernet Adapters

Benjamin LaHaise
2002-03-11T04:28:53Z

On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 12:20:26PM +0800, Michael Clark wrote:
> What about jumbo frames? I notice this comment in the driver "disable
> jumbo frames to avoid tx hangs". I'm getting ~550Mb/sec from a single
> TCP stream and ~700Mb/sec with 2 in parallel. Jumbo frames would
> probably improve this quite a bit.

Jumbo frames work up to RX_BUF_SIZE. Hint: any mtu you try to specify
that the driver lets you set should work.

-ben
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