From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 13 11:17:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from snipe.prod.itd.earthlink.net (snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7A2637B401 for ; Mon, 13 May 2002 11:17:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pool0153.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.42.153] helo=mindspring.com) by snipe.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 177KOE-0006pr-00; Mon, 13 May 2002 11:17:43 -0700 Message-ID: <3CE00329.AD179FC9@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 11:17:13 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Greenman-Lawrence Cc: jamie@tridentmicrosystems.co.uk, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Broadcom BCM5701 Chipset problems References: <20020513115600.A50967@mufuf.trident-uk.co.uk> <3CDFF60C.48A2EA65@mindspring.com> <20020513102526.H72322@nexus.root.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Greenman-Lawrence wrote: > >If you aren't using VLAN tagging, you shouldn't care. > > No, that is absolutely not correct. The checksum problems happend in many > situations, depending on the chipset and other factors. The problem that > resulted in the commit to disable the receive hardware checksum was caused > by small packets with certain byte patterns, NOT VLAN ENCAPSULATION. Are you sure you are talking about the Tigon III, and not the Tigon II? -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message