From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 2 01:14:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA11192 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 01:14:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shell6.ba.best.com (root@shell6.ba.best.com [206.184.139.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA11164 for ; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 01:13:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bannai@shell6.ba.best.com) Received: (from bannai@localhost) by shell6.ba.best.com (8.8.8/8.8.BEST) id AAA00813; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 00:12:48 -0800 (PST) From: Vinay Bannai Message-Id: <199803020812.AAA00813@shell6.ba.best.com> Subject: Re: "Best" Fast Ethernet Card In-Reply-To: <19980301131921.45593@klemm.gtn.com> from Andreas Klemm at "Mar 1, 98 01:19:21 pm" To: andreas@klemm.gtn.com (Andreas Klemm) Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 00:12:48 -0800 (PST) Cc: bannai@best.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG According to Andreas Klemm: > On Fri, Feb 27, 1998 at 04:13:12PM -0800, Vinay Bannai wrote: > > > > Yup. The ifnet device has a flag which indicates that it is capable of > > doing checksum in the hardware and you set this flag in the mbufs and pass > > it along. This is pretty usefule when computing checksumn in hardware for > > transmits too. > > > > I know of atleast two protocol stack implementations (popular too) that > > use these techniques... > > Which one ? > > Is it a secret ? ;-) > I don't if it is a secret. But if you must know, I do work for a relatvilely large super computer firm based in Minneosota but work from their Mountian View office. :-) Vinay -- Vinay Bannai E-mail: bannai@best.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message