On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Sandeep Agarwal wrote:
> I am trying to test the performance of TCP over wireless Lans using Linux
> 6.1 Redhat. I am using your wvlan driver with Lucent WaveLan 11MB turbo
> silver cards. In the driver you have set the TX_TIMEOUT to be
> (4000*Hz/1000) and justify this by saying that since Ethernet is faster
> the timeout for wireless has to be more than Ethernet for which it is
> (400*Hz/1000).
> But since I am using 11MB cards can I use the same value of
> TX_TIMEOUT as Ethernet. Do you think this would improve the performance
You misunderstand its purpose. For most drivers TX_TIMEOUT is the watchdog
timeout, the time at which we decide that something has gone horribly wrong
and reset the hardware. The value does not come into play during normal
operation, it only changes how long it takes to recover from errors.
Donald Becker
Scyld Computing Corporation, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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