RE: [ethmac] Pause

["Igor Mohor" <igorm@opencores.org>]

Hi, Jeff,

please read my comments below.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ethmac@opencores.org [mailto:owner-ethmac@opencores.org]On
> Behalf Of zjli@technologist.com
> Sent: 6. februar 2002 23:30
> To: ethmac@opencores.org
> Subject: [ethmac] Pause
>
>
> This core stops transmitting upon receiving a control frame only after
> having finished sending the current frame. Am I right?

Yes.

> Can it be a very
> long time between receiving the control frame and starting to pause? I
> do not see any requirement in IEEE 802.3, but is it important to react to
> the PAUSE request more quickly than waiting for a frame to finish?

I disagree with you. Let's say that you just start with frame transmission
when
you received the pause request. You'll stop sending frames after this one.
So there is max. 1 frame delay. Receiving station sends pause request not
when it is full but when it is close to full.

>
> Thanks,
> Jeff

Regards,
	Igor

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