On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 12:24:49AM +0100, Peter Turczak wrote:
> I audited our system running under various operating systems.
> The following OS do _not_ pad the packets with zero but something else, if
> anybody is interested in the dumps of the frames produced while testing, feel
> free to contact me.
>
> Machine OS Version
>
> IBM iSeries OS/400
> IBM RS/6000 AIX 4.3
> Sun E450 Solaris 8
> HP Printers JetDirect Various
In the case of the E450, the hardware does the ethernet padding. It does
with values different from 0 (0x55 in the 2 machines I tested, E420 and Ultra5),
but it doesn't come from host memory.
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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
{Net,Free}BSD: 22 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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