Date: Sun, 1 Mar 1998 13:19:21 +0100 From: Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com> To: Vinay Bannai <bannai@best.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "Best" Fast Ethernet Card Message-ID: <19980301131921.45593@klemm.gtn.com> In-Reply-To: <199802280013.QAA04406@shell6.ba.best.com>; from Vinay Bannai on Fri, Feb 27, 1998 at 04:13:12PM -0800 References: <199802271811.KAA00364@bubba.whistle.com> <199802280013.QAA04406@shell6.ba.best.com>
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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 ? ;-) -- Andreas Klemm powered by ,,symmetric multiprocessor FreeBSD'' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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