Dennis wrote: > For "Fairness" gaps in between frames are better > as you approach capacity of your wire.
Isn't there some ethernet requirement (implemented on the NIC) that a transmitter holds off the wire a little to give other NICs enough time to notice there's nothing being transmitted? The sequence of events would be something like: NIC1 NIC2 time | v start xmit host queues next packet xmit finishes start "back-to-back" delay sense idle wire start xmit sense access from NIC2 "back-to-back" delay ends wait for wire idle xmit finishes sense idle start xmit Or did I just fall asleep reading the spec and dream this. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message