"Fast Switching" or NIC-to-NIC communications AND channel bonding discouragement

Jeff Garzik jgarzik@mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com
Mon Mar 13 09:08:58 2000


On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, Robert Olsson wrote:
>  There is no support for "fast switching" in the current tulip.c neither
>  2.2 or 2.3 kernels. The 2.1 kernels had a tulip version with the "fast 
>  switching" code. I consider Alexey Kuznetsov as inventor and he did the
>  the additions to tulip.c as well. This work was not included the in the
>  stock tulip.c or other drivers either but it's another story.

I maintain tulip in 2.3.x (as noted in the kernel source), and patches
submitted to me are always welcome.

	Jeff




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