Re: Network Device-Driver/Layer Implementation: Help required

What L2 protocols will it support?  This will determin how you present it to
the network stack.  At a minimum it will have to create a net_device which
has all sorts of function pointers in it that you will have to implement.

On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 01:25:18PM +0530, Harish Kulkarni wrote:

Hello all,
I have a T1/E1 device driver: ( completed till PCI initialization and other
device-internals initialization,including interrupts handling procedures),
now i am not understanding how to provide the interface to upper layers?. I
have walked through the lapb-module.txt and some code of IPX, but still the
things are not clear. Can any one help/guide me?
-Thanks
Hari

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-----Original Message-----
From: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com [mailto:netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com]On
Behalf Of Robert Olsson
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 12:33 AM
To: Cheng Jin
Cc: jamal; netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Linux SMP on 2.4.18-3



Cheng Jin writes:

 > Out of curiosity, what is the maximum send rate (pps) under Linux
 > 2.4.18-3?  I read in the paper that sending across two Intel
Gbe with one
 > CPU gets up to 36o Kpps.

 Yes forwarding performance...

 A good chip/driver can itself do a lot more. I have seen very
decent numbers
 with e1000, tg3 and dl2k. For FE tulip has been a top performer for long
 time but  I also now see 144 kpps from my laptop w. 3c59x driver.

 Cheers.
						--ro

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James R. Leu