Steven Stallion wrote:
> It does not. The RTL8029AS does little more than move data back and forth;
> the programmer is responsible for enforcing most constraints (i.e. runt
> and toolong checking, padding, tx timeouts etc.).
IIRC, the RTL8029AS is a NatSemi DP8390 core married to a PCI bus
interface.  The 8390 was the core of the Novell NE2000.  The 8390
was pretty basic in terms of functionality and had a handful of
gotchas, that, if I recall correctly, are faithfully reproduced
in the RTL8029 ;-)

Cheers,
Dana


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