From 733ecab062fb58265c647c98a164f6f731193340 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: bmah Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 16:39:00 +0000 Subject: New release notes: de(4) round-robin transmit/receive, ng_eth(4), sysctl(8) -e. --- release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml | 15 +++++++++++++++ release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml | 15 +++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 30 insertions(+) (limited to 'release') diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml index 33d4ba1..3ffe9ff 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml @@ -414,6 +414,12 @@ and VLAN tag insertion/stripping are supported, as well as interrupt moderation. &merged; + The &man.de.4; driver now performs round-robin arbitration + between transmit and receive unit of the 21143, instead of + giving priority to the receive unit. This gives a 10–15% + performance improvement in the forwarding rate under heavy + load. &merged; + The &man.ed.4; driver is now supported. Linksys Fast Ethernet PCCARD cards supported by the @@ -577,6 +583,10 @@ &man.netgraph.4; has received some updates and bugfixes. + A new &man.ng.eth.4; netgraph node allows Ethernet type + packets to be filtered to different hooks depending on + ethertype. + The &man.ng.gif.4; and &man.ng.gif.demux.4; netgraph nodes, for operating on &man.gif.4; devices, have been added. @@ -1919,6 +1929,11 @@ deprecated. The option is deprecated as well; it is not needed to determine the user's intentions. &merged; + &man.sysctl.8; now supports a option to + separate variable names and values by = rather + than :. This feature is useful for producing + output that can be fed back to &man.sysctl.8;. + &man.sysinstall.8; now properly preserves /etc/mail during a binary upgrade. &merged; diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml index 33d4ba1..3ffe9ff 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml @@ -414,6 +414,12 @@ and VLAN tag insertion/stripping are supported, as well as interrupt moderation. &merged; + The &man.de.4; driver now performs round-robin arbitration + between transmit and receive unit of the 21143, instead of + giving priority to the receive unit. This gives a 10–15% + performance improvement in the forwarding rate under heavy + load. &merged; + The &man.ed.4; driver is now supported. Linksys Fast Ethernet PCCARD cards supported by the @@ -577,6 +583,10 @@ &man.netgraph.4; has received some updates and bugfixes. + A new &man.ng.eth.4; netgraph node allows Ethernet type + packets to be filtered to different hooks depending on + ethertype. + The &man.ng.gif.4; and &man.ng.gif.demux.4; netgraph nodes, for operating on &man.gif.4; devices, have been added. @@ -1919,6 +1929,11 @@ deprecated. The option is deprecated as well; it is not needed to determine the user's intentions. &merged; + &man.sysctl.8; now supports a option to + separate variable names and values by = rather + than :. This feature is useful for producing + output that can be fed back to &man.sysctl.8;. + &man.sysinstall.8; now properly preserves /etc/mail during a binary upgrade. &merged; -- cgit v1.1