On Tue, 2017-03-28 at 12:31 +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > > Interesting. I tried and it worked :-) Could be something funny in > > the config of our switches. > > It could be that the switch supports pause frames, but it's not > advertised because there's some corner cases that it doesn't work. I > know that SolidRun have run into switches that corrupt ethernet frames > when pause is used. (I don't know off hand which they are, but I could > ask the question.)
I think this is Cisco gear, I'll check with our lab guy today. In the meantime I'll test my driver back to back with some other machines, I should find something that does pause eventually :-) It's handy when you have a gigabit MAC on a 400Mhz ARM9 to be able to throttle the peer despite all the other problems with Pause :-) Cheers, Ben.
