* Alex Kapranoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010817 01:24] wrote:
> Good day,
> 
> I'm in the process of translation release notes and have trouble
> understanding and thus interpreting the term 'checksum offload' which is
> a feature of nge(4) and lge(4) drivers. Does it mean that the
> controllers are able to compute TCP/IP checksums in hardware thus taking
> off load from CPU? Don't hesitate to tell me I'm stupid and this has
> nothing to do with TCP/IP :)

Yes, that's the point of checksum offloading.

> Oh, and what's a jumbogram?

Large frames, larger than standard ethernet MTU, afaik they're
8 or 9k.

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Ok, who wrote this damn function called '??'?
And why do my programs keep crashing in it?

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