bce: jumbo not working since r218423
Adrian Chadd
adrian at freebsd.org
Fri Apr 27 23:37:42 UTC 2012
On 27 April 2012 16:08, David Christensen <davidch at broadcom.com> wrote:
> The intent was to pass compliance tests such as those performed at UNH
> by limiting the MTU to the size allowed by the IEEE 802.3 specification.
> (No one likes explaining such failures to customers.) As you indicate, real
> world applications benefit from loose compliance on RX so a single
> tunable is all that's intended to enable/disable the behavior.
May I suggest (if it isn't already) documenting this in the driver
manpage? that way it's not forgotten by some future hacker and removed
for being "useless" ? :-)
Thanks!
Adrian
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