Re: [ethmac] specification for eth MAC

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>]

Novan Hartadi wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, Kent Dahlgren wrote:
> 
> > In any case I don't really care much which one is chosen, let's just pick
> > one and
> > get on with it. There are several commercially available devices which have
> > well
> > documented interfaces.
> >
> > Does anyone else have any preferences?
> >
> > Kent
> >
> 
> My preferences for Eth MAC 10/100 Mbps :
> - symmetrical format receive and transmit descriptors
> - separates FIFO for transmit and receive (what is its size for optimal
>   performance ?)
> - supports full duplex and half duplex for both 10 and 100 Mbps operations
> - supports auto-negotiation

100% agreed


> My questions :
> - actually, do we need multicast addrees filtering

IMHO yes, if there are lots of multicast packets the host CPU must
process ALL of them, if the chip doesn't do filtering for us.

	JEff



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