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12 years ago

TSE Gigabit will not generate TX pause frames

Hello, I have done everything I can see to try for over a day now but have been unable to get pause frames to be transmitted on a Gigabit link. Even with XOFF_GEN set in the command register n...
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12 years ago

Changing the advertised TCP window will only help if there is only a single connection.

It is also unlikely that you'll even saturate 100M - so you probably aren't getting a lower throughput.

Of course, whatever ethernet switch is changing from Ge to 100M might also have limited buffer space. OTOH it might manage to genarate the required pause frames.