2012/1/2 Christian Weisgerber <na...@mips.inka.de>:
> Ilya Shipitsin <chipits...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm running servers with "em" NICs.  People on list reported things
>> like
>>
"hwfeatures=8037<CSUM_IPv4,CSUM_TCPv4,CSUM_UDPv4,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,WOL>
",
>> I do not see such options in ifconfig output.
>
> Try "ifconfig em0 hwfeatures" on -current.

f2n0:/root#ifconfig em0 hwfeatures
ifconfig: hwfeatures: bad value



it doesn't work on 5.0RELEASE ?

>
>> neither man page on "em" says anything about check sum offload.
>
> Liar.
>
>  The em driver supports IPv4 receive IP/TCP/UDP checksum offload on all
>  but 82542-based adapters, VLAN tag insertion and stripping, and Jumbo
>  frames on all but 82562V, 82566DC/82566DM and 82573E/82573L/82573V-based
>  adapters.
>
>> "em" are advanced cards, do they already do all things out of a box?
>
> Yes.
>
>> ifconfig also shows "media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT
>> full-duplex,rxpause,txpause)", what is rxpause,txpause ?
>
> Ethernet flow control.
>
> --
> Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          na...@mips.inka.de

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