m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > We've got this really bizarre problem, trying to get a bridge/firewall > working. My manager and I are almost grasping at straws.... > > Anyway, I'm using lshw to look at an identical machine, and a Dell 1950 > that works when configured as a bridge, and there's one thing I don't > know: does anyone know what mingnt is? >MIN_GNT and MAX_LAT > >These read-only byte registers are used to specify the device's desired >settings for Latency Timer values. For both registers, the value >specifies a period of time in units of 1/4 microsecond. Values of 0 >indicate that the device has no major requirements for the settings of >Latency Timers. > >MIN_GNT is used for specifying how long a burst period the device needs >assuming a clock rate of 33MHz. MAX_LAT is used for specifying how >often the device needs to gain access to the PCI bus. > >Devices should specify values that will allow them to most effectively >use the PCI bus as well as their internal resources. Values should be >chosen assuming that the target does not insert any wait states. From: http://www.reric.net/linux/pci_latency.html Ljubomir