On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 12:01:20PM +0100, Roger Luethi wrote:

On Wed, 01 Dec 2004 21:01:48 +0100, Lennert Buytenhek wrote:

quoted

"Is the hardware capable of sending back-to-back packets (i.e. with
an inter-packet gap of no more than 96 bit times)?"

 => YES. All the VIA Rhine Fast Ethernet controllers follows the IEEE
standard (inter-frame gap is 96 bit time) and it is hardware fixed and
NOT programmable.

As far as I know, the IEEE standard only mandates a certain minimum
inter-frame gap.

Thanks for the information, I'll have a look at the VIA driver.


--L