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From: Subba Rao <subba9@home.com>
To: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Half Duplex and Zero Copy IP
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 09:53:13 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010810095313.A6219@home.com> (raw)

Hello,

I have 2 3Com NICs on my system. They are 3c905C Tornado PCI cards.
The drivers are compiled into the kernel (Slackware 8.0 with kernel 2.4.7).

One of the interfaces will be used as a sniffer interface (without IP address)
and a very high traffic pipes. I do not wish to loose any packets coming to this
interface. Is it better if I initialize the interface in HALF DUPLEX mode? If yes,
how do I set the card to HALF DUPLEX mode? How can I find out the HW (NIC) settings
on the system?

Another question about 3Com NICs, do they perform zero-copy IP? I read that
the performance improves a lot WITHOUT zero-copy IP.

Thanks for any info.
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             reply	other threads:[~2001-08-10 13:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-08-10  9:53 Subba Rao [this message]
2001-08-10 18:36 ` Half Duplex and Zero Copy IP Andrew Morton
2001-08-11  7:59   ` Subba Rao
2001-08-10 18:46 ` Andi Kleen
2001-08-10 23:50   ` Jamie Lokier
2001-08-11  0:00     ` Andi Kleen

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