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Date:      Tue, 14 May 2002 05:27:40 +0930 (CST)
From:      Richard Sharpe <rsharpe@ns.aus.com>
To:        David Greenman-Lawrence <dg@root.com>
Cc:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, <jamie@tridentmicrosystems.co.uk>, <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Broadcom BCM5701 Chipset problems
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.33.0205140526160.2758-100000@ns.aus.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020513114124.J72322@nexus.root.com>

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On Mon, 13 May 2002, David Greenman-Lawrence wrote:

> >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?
> 
>    Yes, of course. I'm talking specifically about the Broadcom BCM570x. My
> particular experiance was with the Syskonnect 9D21 and 9D41 boards which
> both use the Altima chip.

I have seen checksum problems with the 5700 ...

Can you tell me which steppings of the 5701 you are seeing the problems 
with? Is it with 1500-byte frames, jumbo frames, or both?

Regards
-----
Richard Sharpe, rsharpe@ns.aus.com, rsharpe@samba.org, 
sharpe@ethereal.com


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