[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: why swap? -- welcome to Gigabit Ethernet

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Fri, 2004-09-10 at 13:28, Chris Cox wrote:
> Robert Citek wrote:
> ...
> I've had some problems with the tg3 driver... I know others
> complain about Broadcom's bcm5700 driver... but that's what
> I prefer to use.  When in doubt, get the latest from broadcom
> and give it a shot.

Of course, if the transmitter or ASIC is poorly supported by the driver,
then that's a problem.

It's hard to know what's causing the TCP window reduction, because that
is just the effect of whatever the cause is, without being at the
system.

I just know that in the case of cheap hardware, the lack of a sizeable
SRAM (sub-512KB), especially when using 1500 byte frames and/or
definitely when there is not 802.3x support at _all_ nodes and the
switch -- I've seen this personally.


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