Re: [Etherboot-developers] Fragmented packets....

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ke...@us... (Ken Yap) writes:

> >I have just started some serious tests on my multicast implementation,
> >and the fragmetted packet warning is triggering a lot.  What is happening
> >is that there is other broadcast traffic that is transmitting fragmented
> >packets.  The problem is that with errors at 9600 baud seeing lots of
> >warnings cause a major slowdown in etherboot.
> 
> Just make -DMULTICAST discard fragments silently would be the fix I
> guess.

Depending on the network we might see this with broadcast packets as
well.  The solution I plan to implement now that I have slept is to 
first drop packets that are not to a mac we are listening on.  So
it must be our mac, broadcast, or a multicast mac we are listening to.
And then if it occurs set a timer and limit the reporting rate to once
a second.

If the message is at all useful arbitrarily disabling it is bad.

This is more a busy network problem than a multicast problem in
particular.  I just happened to trigger it.

Eric