--- Shine Mohamed <shinemohamed_j@naturesoft.net> wrote: > The maximum size of the skbuff depends on the > underlying > protocol used. > > For example if the network device is an ethernet > card > which using the protocol IEEE802.3 the maximum size > is 1536 KB (Pls check for the exact value) per > packet. > > And if another standards such as IEEE802.11 it > varies. skbuff is a generic data structure used in the networking code. It is not specific to ethernet/whatever link layer protocol being used. For eg., it can store all the fragments of an IP datagram. skbuffs can definitely be larger (than this 1536 bytes limit). ===== Regards, Kiran Kumar Immidi __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
