packet.7: Minor fixes to Carsten Andrich's patch

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Michael Kerrisk 2014-04-22 20:56:56 +02:00
parent 8c26e99bce
commit 896333c57e
1 changed files with 3 additions and 2 deletions

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@ -323,10 +323,11 @@ When a malformed packet is encountered on a transmit ring, the default is to
set its status to
.BR TP_STATUS_WRONG_FORMAT
and abort the transmission immediately (it and following packets are left
lingering on the ring). However if
lingering on the ring).
However, if
.BR PACKET_LOSS
is set, malformed packets will be skipped, their status reset to
.BR TP_STATUS_AVAILABLE
.BR TP_STATUS_AVAILABLE ,
and the transmission process continued.
.TP
.BR PACKET_RESERVE " (with " PACKET_RX_RING )