- Kurt Jaeger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi!
I'm researching the topic of PAUSE counters (receiving side) for
FreeBSD systems.
That's a sort of flow control with ethernet, see e.g.:
http://www.techfest.com/networking/lan/ethernet3.htm#3.2.1
Cisco switches seem to receive and count
Tom Samplonius wrote:
FreeBSD does not send PAUSE frames, but most of the NICs out there will
process received PAUSE frames.
However ethernet flow control is mainly useful on the switches anyways.
Switches these day (*) have small buffers (sometimes just a shared 3MB buffer
for 24
On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 12:18 PM, Bruce M. Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There are switch ASICs out there which implement upstream bandwidth
limiting on ports by sending the PAUSE frame.
I believe thompsa@ recently committed a fix to if_bridge to allow it to
ignore PAUSE frames for the
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 11:41:07AM +0100, Kurt Jaeger wrote:
Hi!
I'm researching the topic of PAUSE counters (receiving side) for
FreeBSD systems.
That's a sort of flow control with ethernet, see e.g.:
http://www.techfest.com/networking/lan/ethernet3.htm#3.2.1
Cisco
Hi!
I'm researching the topic of PAUSE counters (receiving side) for
FreeBSD systems.
That's a sort of flow control with ethernet, see e.g.:
http://www.techfest.com/networking/lan/ethernet3.htm#3.2.1
Cisco switches seem to receive and count them, which helps
to find short-term (seconds)
