Subject: misc problems
To: None <chuck@maria.wustl.edu>
From: Gordon W. Ross <gwr@mc.com>
List: port-sun3
Date: 01/23/1995 14:37:33
> Date:     Mon, 23 Jan 95 11:41:53 CST
> From: Chuck Cranor <chuck@maria.wustl.edu>

> Anyway, John Stone (@umr.edu) and I discovered the problem with the 
> "ie" driver while working on the sun-4/110 port.  When I ported the 
> "ie" driver to the sparc from the i386 port I inherited this:
> 
> #define IE_TBUF_SIZE    1512    /* length of transmit buffer */
> 
> This value is wrong.  It should be 1514 (1500 (ETHERMTU) + 6 byte source +
> 6 byte dest + 2 byte type field).

Thanks for the fix!  I'll get that right in.

Why not pad it just a little so you get a nice round (3*512) length?

Gordon