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Date:      Fri, 23 Jul 1999 08:14:04 -0600
From:      "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@caspian.plutotech.com>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Peter Jeremy <jeremyp@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, jkh@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/release/sysinstall tcpip.c 
Message-ID:  <199907231414.IAA03193@caspian.plutotech.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 23 Jul 1999 01:22:54 PDT." <199907230822.BAA00709@dingo.cdrom.com> 

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>So is there any reasonable expectation that we will have to deal with 
>hardware that won't result in the driver placing the ethernet header 
>immediately before the payload in the mbuf?  This would result in us 
>having to copy it around, which would be slightly yucky.

In zero copy applications, the header and the payload are usually placed
in separate areas.

--
Justin



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