Re: Request for review (HW checksum patches)

> Right now, just the Alteon cards. Support for the 3Com-XL can probably > be added without too much trouble. I don't see a driver for the 3Com-990 > though, and I can't find a reference to it on the 3Com website, is > this a new card? Its fairly new, and the future of support for it under fre

Re: Request for review (HW checksum patches)

On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 10:36:24PM -0600, Jonathan Lemon wrote: > On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 09:25:33PM -0500, Keith Stevenson wrote: > > > > Which card(s) do your patches support? I have a 3Com 3CR990-TX (typhoon) > > which does both TCP checksumming and 3DES (for IPSec). I'd love to give > > it

Re: Request for review (HW checksum patches)

On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 09:25:33PM -0500, Keith Stevenson wrote: > On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 06:56:42PM -0600, Jonathan Lemon wrote: > > > > The patches I have were designed to solve a single problem, just > > checksum offloading. There are enough bits left in the new flag field > > that you could

Re: Request for review (HW checksum patches)

On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 06:56:42PM -0600, Jonathan Lemon wrote: > > The patches I have were designed to solve a single problem, just > checksum offloading. There are enough bits left in the new flag field > that you could use for something else, I don't know enough about what > you'd want to do

Re: Request for review (HW checksum patches)

In article [EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >> From: Jonathan Lemon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 13:35:53 -0600 >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: Request for review (HW checksum patches) >> X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i >&

Re: Request for review (HW checksum patches)

In article you write: >FWIW, Win2000 has a mechanism for dealing with what they call task >offloading. If you decide to attack the problem, an inexpensive device you >can use for testing is the 3C905B; it does IP+TCP checksums. Yes, unfortunately it doesn't handle fragments at all. I looked a

Re: Request for review (HW checksum patches)

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Re: Request for review (HW checksum patches)

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Request for review (HW checksum patches)

I have a set of patches which allows offloading checksums to NICs which support it (right now, only the Alteon based cards). The patch is at . Note that the alpha bits are currently untested. -- Jonathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTEC