MBUF problems

[Chris Torek]

In article <994 at brl-smoke.ARPA> cck%cucca.columbia.arpa at BRL.ARPA

... describes a problem with the Ultrix 1.1 DEQNA (MicroVAX) driver,
and suggests possible fixes.

>1.  Fix dtom.

dtom() is not broken: it is the DEQNA driver that is broken.  Fix
that.

>2. Drop usage of dtom where necessary.

Again, this is the wrong fix.

>3. Drop usage of the private page pool.

The DEQNA driver should not use private mclusters.  It should use
the standard ones, in the standard ways; see vaxif/if_uba.c.  (The
4.3 version handles multiple transmit and receive buffers.  I would
guess that this is part of the problem in the Ultrix driver.)
There are no problems with dtom() as long as the drivers adhere to
the protocol requirements.

I suspect the Ultrix 1.2 DEQNA driver is already fixed.
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