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Re: SNLE driver (Slow Network Link Emulating Driver)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Wed Apr 17 05:40:02 1996
From: Alan Cox <alan@cymru.net>
To: mingo@kaliban.csoma.elte.hu (Molnar Ingo)
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 09:41:38 +0100 (BST)
Cc: torvalds@cs.helsinki.fi, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu,
linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960414204901.14397A-100000@kaliban.csoma.elte.hu> from "Molnar Ingo" at Apr 14, 96 08:59:51 pm
> To be able to simulate slow networks (when doing timing dependent changes
> to the networking code like delayed acks 8) :
>
> ---------> diff -u to loopback.c begins here -------->
> <----- diff ended here <---------
>
> Is this a bad idea? (i'm a bit worried about the "bh-s are disabled"
> comment in loopback.c 8)).
Use a pair of 3c501 ethernet cards instead. It gives 'real' errors, flow control
situations and interrupts at awkward moments, loopback doesnt.
Alan
