From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "James R. Leu" Subject: Re: Network Device-Driver/Layer Implementation: Help required Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 10:35:49 -0600 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <20021031103549.A6846@nero.doit.wisc.edu> References: <15808.11521.25342.659187@robur.slu.se> Reply-To: jleu@mindspring.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: Harish Kulkarni In-Reply-To: ; from hari@cosystech.com on Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 01:25:18PM +0530 Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org What L2 protocols will it support? This will determin how you present it to the network stack. At a minimum it will have to create a net_device which has all sorts of function pointers in it that you will have to implement. On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 01:25:18PM +0530, Harish Kulkarni wrote: > Hello all, > I have a T1/E1 device driver: ( completed till PCI initialization and other > device-internals initialization,including interrupts handling procedures), > now i am not understanding how to provide the interface to upper layers?. I > have walked through the lapb-module.txt and some code of IPX, but still the > things are not clear. Can any one help/guide me? > -Thanks > Hari > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com [mailto:netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com]On > > Behalf Of Robert Olsson > > Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 12:33 AM > > To: Cheng Jin > > Cc: jamal; netdev@oss.sgi.com > > Subject: Re: Linux SMP on 2.4.18-3 > > > > > > > > Cheng Jin writes: > > > > > Out of curiosity, what is the maximum send rate (pps) under Linux > > > 2.4.18-3? I read in the paper that sending across two Intel > > Gbe with one > > > CPU gets up to 36o Kpps. > > > > Yes forwarding performance... > > > > A good chip/driver can itself do a lot more. I have seen very > > decent numbers > > with e1000, tg3 and dl2k. For FE tulip has been a top performer for long > > time but I also now see 144 kpps from my laptop w. 3c59x driver. > > > > Cheers. > > --ro > > > > > > > -- James R. Leu