Date: Tue, 09 Apr 96 09:11:24 PST From: "Brett Glass" <Brett_Glass@ccgate.infoworld.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Artisoft AE-3 Ethernet card: How to use large buffer? Message-ID: <9603098290.AA829070379@ccgate.infoworld.com>
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I'm running FreeBSD on a machine with an Artisoft AE-3 card -- an NE2000 clone with 64K (rather than the usual 16K) of buffer space. How can I get FreeBSD to recognize, and use, this additional space for transmit (and, especially, receive) buffering? The kernel source, which is almost uncommented, suggests that the OS will assume an NE2000-compatible card has 16K of buffering. There's also some conditionaly compiled code having to do with a Gateway Ethernet card. It's not normally compiled in, but it looks as if it *may* test the buffer size. Will the Gateway code enable the use of the full 64K of buffer space? If so, is the code tested and reliable? Finally, if both of the above are true, what is the best way to cause it to be compiled in? Will an "options GWETHER" in the kernel configuration file work? --Brett
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