Re: How to optimize routing performance

Robert Olsson (Robert.Olsson@data.slu.se)
Thu, 15 Mar 2001 20:54:13 +0100 (CET)


Jonathan Morton writes:

> Nice. Any chance of similar functionality finding its' way outside the
> Tulip driver, eg. to 3c509 or via-rhine? I'd find those useful, since one
> or two of my Macs appear to be capable of generating pseudo-DoS levels of
> traffic under certain circumstances which totally lock a 486 (for the
> duration) and heavily load a P166 - even though said Macs "only" have
> 10baseT Ethernet.

I'm not the one to tell. :-)

First its kind of experimental. Jamal has talked about putting together
a proposal for enhancing RX-process for inclusion in the 2.5 kernels.
There is meeting soon for this.

But why not experiment a bit?

Cheers.

--ro
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