Re: [Etherboot-developers] Interval between eth_poll....

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>I am using eepro100.c for 82557 for tftp booting and after comparing
>with log of tcpdump on other remote hosts ,
>i found that i am losing some broadcast packets ..
>Is it normal and expected  in polling mode mode driver with only one
>receive descriptor ..?
>Is it  because of some packets arriving between intervals of  eth_poll.?
>
>if this is the case how tftp will hansle loss of packets..in case 
>interval between eth_poll() somehow gets enlarged further.

1. tftp does not use broadcast packets
2. tftp is a stop and wait protocol, if a packet is lost it is retried
3. the caller of eth_poll controls how often it is called, in Etherboot
   as soon as the last packet has been dealt with