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My fork of git://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git, it is used for my netboot environment at home.
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Michael Brown 69062bbc21 [smsc75xx] Add driver for SMSC/Microchip LAN75xx USB Ethernet NICs 
This driver is functional but any downloads via a TCP-based protocol
tend to perform poorly.  The 1Gbps Ethernet line rate is substantially
higher than the 480Mbps (in practice around 280Mbps) provided by USB2,
and the device has only 32kB of internal buffer memory.  Our 256kB TCP
receive window therefore rapidly overflows the RX FIFO, leading to
multiple dropped packets (usually within the same TCP window) and
hence a low overall throughput.

Reducing the TCP window size so that the RX FIFO does not overflow
greatly increases throughput, but is not a general-purpose solution.

Further investigation is required to determine how other OSes
(e.g. Linux) cope with this scenario.  It is possible that
implementing TCP SACK would provide some benefit.

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2015-03-11 13:38:38 +00:00
contrib [errdb] Strip platform error code for non-platform-generated errors 2013-04-29 15:36:32 +01:00
src [smsc75xx] Add driver for SMSC/Microchip LAN75xx USB Ethernet NICs 2015-03-11 13:38:38 +00:00
COPYING [legal] Update GPLv2 licence text 2015-02-26 17:59:53 +00:00
COPYING.GPLv2 [legal] Update GPLv2 licence text 2015-02-26 17:59:53 +00:00
COPYING.UBDL [legal] Add support for the Unmodified Binary Distribution Licence 2015-03-02 12:07:14 +00:00
README [doc] Re-add README file 2010-05-28 00:03:47 +01:00

README 

iPXE README File

Quick start guide:

   cd src
   make

For any more detailed instructions, see http://ipxe.org