On Mon, 13 May 2002, David Greenman-Lawrence wrote: > >David Greenman-Lawrence wrote: > >> >If you aren't using VLAN tagging, you shouldn't care. > >> > >> No, that is absolutely not correct. The checksum problems happend in many > >> situations, depending on the chipset and other factors. The problem that > >> resulted in the commit to disable the receive hardware checksum was caused > >> by small packets with certain byte patterns, NOT VLAN ENCAPSULATION. > > > >Are you sure you are talking about the Tigon III, and not the Tigon II? > > Yes, of course. I'm talking specifically about the Broadcom BCM570x. My > particular experiance was with the Syskonnect 9D21 and 9D41 boards which > both use the Altima chip.
I have seen checksum problems with the 5700 ... Can you tell me which steppings of the 5701 you are seeing the problems with? Is it with 1500-byte frames, jumbo frames, or both? Regards ----- Richard Sharpe, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
