On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 09:53:24PM +0200, Nico Meijer wrote: > Hi all, > > > > Probably supported by re(4), send a dmesg. > > > > They don't handle jumbo frames quite as well as sk, though... > > The EG1032 have served me perfectly so far, but I'm not going to switch > to a RealTek chipset. > > How decent is the vge(4) compared to the sk chipset? Anyone care to > comment on that? > > Thanks... Nico
For a "low end" targetted chipset vge(4) is actually pretty damn good. It can do up to 16k Jumbos and has TCP/IP checksum offload which actually seems to work without any issues. The RealTek chipset (re(4)) cannot do a full standard sized Jumbo frame (9k) but only 7440 bytes instead, quite lame, and TX checksum offload seems to have issues with some revs of the chipset.