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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
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