nelson@SUN.SOE.CLARKSON.EDU (Russ Nelson) (03/16/89)
I got the impression that this particular NI5210 driver has different maximum sizes for receive and transmit buffers? That's kind of odd. Probably not too odd, given the architecture of the 82586 Ethernet controller. The chip requires you to set up a linked list of buckets of memory. Incoming packets get dumped into one or more buckets as needed automagically by the 82586. Any memory used for transmitting gets taken from this linked list. Multiple packets can be chained and transmitted by the chip, but I don't think there's much advantage in that. I'd rather use the memory for incoming packets. --russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu]) If you can, help others. If you can't, at least don't hurt others--the Dalai Lama