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Date:      Wed, 13 Dec 2006 12:09:06 +0100
From:      Max Laier <max@love2party.net>
To:        Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com>
Cc:        spork@bway.net, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: pf killing NFS
Message-ID:  <200612131209.12687.max@love2party.net>
In-Reply-To: <E1GuRv7-000DHq-OI@dilbert.ticketswitch.com>
References:  <E1GuRv7-000DHq-OI@dilbert.ticketswitch.com>

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On Wednesday 13 December 2006 12:05, Pete French wrote:
> > As Luke already pointed out, "no-df" on the scrub rule should help.=20
> > As=3D20 for the "bad cksum!" - this is a symptom of checksumming done
> > in=3D20 hardware.  ifconfig bge1 -rxcsum -txcsum should get rid of
> > them.
>
> I am a bit concerned by this - we use a lot of bge interfaces, and I
> have hardware checksumming enabled on all of them. Are they known to
> produce bad checksums ?

You are misunderstanding.  The problem is simply that the bpf device sees=20
bad checksums as it sees the packet before the hardware has calculated=20
it.  On the receiver the checksum will be correct.

=2D-=20
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