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Peter Wemm fe63158271 Changes to the Digi/Arnet SYNC driver:
1. Create 2 x 8k transmit buffer blocks in place of the 16k block previously.
   With this change the speed as tested with ttcp on a 2Mbit link went up
   from 206kbyte/s to 236kbyte/s.
2. Change the rest of the functions to also have the definition of the
   return value on a sepperate line.
3. Remove some unused variables.
4. Add code to recover from DMA underruns.
5. Reorder ar_get_packets() to handle errors better.
6. Only allocate a mbuf cluster if the data is more than the mbuf.

(and in a second diff in addition to the above)
7. Stops the occasional DMA underruns that occurred when 2 channels
   are running at 2Mbit/s.

Submitted by: John Hay <jhay@mikom.csir.co.za>
1996-03-17 00:29:35 +00:00
Peter Wemm cc9fce5ad7 This driver supports the Arnet SYNC/570i ISA cards that is based on the
HD64570 chip. Both the 2 and 4 port cards is supported and auto detected.

Line speeds of up to 2Mbps is possible. At this speed about 85% of the
bandwidth is usable with 486DX processors.

The standard FreeBSD sppp code is used for the link level layer. The
default protocol used is PPP. The Cisco HDLC protocol can be used by
adding "link2" to the ifconfig line in /etc/sysconfig or where ever
ifconfig is run.

At the moment only the V.35 and X.21 interfaces is supported. The others
may need tweaks to the clock selection code.

Submitted by: John Hay <jhay@mikom.csir.co.za>
1995-11-21 02:32:04 +00:00