Henrik Nordstrom wrote: > There is no such thing as "operate on the physical level of the dev". The > devices just puts the packets into memory and hands them over to the > kernel, where bridgeing is then implemented on the CPU. Although executing on the physical dev would be a great idea for offloading, it's not what I meant. I meant operate as in: Does the bridge get the packets directly from the nic-driver? Or, does it get it through some detour ( via IP-stack ?) ? Also, ethtool does not work on tulip?! Thanks! -- Al - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
