> > Don't some of the Gigabit FreeBSD drivers actually utilize
> > the on-board
> > checksum processing???
FreeBSD 5.0-current has support for TCP/IP checksum offload, and the
if_ti driver makes use of it. The Tigon NICs do this in firmware though.
I attempted to add support to the SysKonnect d
> The checksome off loading for the Intel gigabit card is broken. All you
> get is the checksum of the frame, so it really isn't all that useful.
Yeah, well, there's a couple of things that supposedly can be done about that.
For transmit, there's a start/offset you can do which could allow to
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Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 19:57:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: Andrew Gallatin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: IP checksum offloading with intel 82559 fast ethernet.
Matthew Jacob writes:
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> Sorry- they're talking
The checksome off loading for the Intel gigabit card is broken. All you
get is the checksum of the frame, so it really isn't all that useful.
paul
Matthew Jacob ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
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>
> (I'm the wx author)... I want to do checksum offloading too at some point.
>
> There's been some w
It was mail from Andrew Gallatin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), but it was private so
I can't just redistribute it. Andrew- want to comment?
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(I'm the wx author)... I want to do checksum offloading too at some point.
There's been some work done on this by Andrew Gallatin and Ken Merry amongst
others insofar as I recall, but I don't believe it's been checked in. Let me
see if I can dig up the mail..
Everyone's at Usenix this week &&
> Don't some of the Gigabit FreeBSD drivers actually utilize
> the on-board
> checksum processing???
H, can't see anything specific Looking at if_wx.c we have a function
wx_start(ifp) where ifp is an ifnet pointer. ifnet has a member if_snd, of
type ifqueue (according to the man page). A
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