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From: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] Transmission limit
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 21:00:30 +0100
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On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 02:05:26PM +0000, P@draigBrady.com wrote:

> >What is weird, is that if we artificially "preload" the NIC tx-fifo with
> >packets, and then instruct it to start sending them, those are actually
> >transmitted AT WIRE SPEED!!

I've very interested in exactly what it is you're doing here.  What
do you mean by 'preload'?


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