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Date:      Sat, 20 Oct 2007 08:41:55 +1000
From:      Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>
To:        Len Gross <sandiegobiker@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Disable Exponential Backoff (retry) on Ethernet?
Message-ID:  <20071019224155.GI20308@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <27cb3ada0710172051t536a4d11pfdfdb079ebd98932@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <27cb3ada0710172051t536a4d11pfdfdb079ebd98932@mail.gmail.com>

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On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 08:51:34PM -0700, Len Gross wrote:
>I'm doing some protocol development and it is convenient to start it on
>Ethernet.  I will need to send a packet to the Ethernet device and only ha=
ve
>it be sent once, even if there is a colision.

I know we've still got some hubs lying around in a backroom at work
but I don't know of anything that will let you disable the retry-on-CD.

Have you considered simulating the network at a slightly higher lever:
Use ipfw pipes or similar to simulate packet loss (either set a queue
length of 1 or probabilistically).  This could be done either as a
bridge or by tunneling your protocol over IP or UDP.

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Peter

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