Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 01:29:26 -0500 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> To: Alex Kapranoff <kapr@acm.org> Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What is 'checksum offload'? Message-ID: <20010817012926.O38066@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <20010816111147.A1328@kapran.bitmcnit.bryansk.su>; from kapr@acm.org on Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 11:11:48AM %2B0400 References: <20010816111147.A1328@kapran.bitmcnit.bryansk.su>
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* Alex Kapranoff <kapr@acm.org> [010817 01:24] wrote: > Good day, > > I'm in the process of translation release notes and have trouble > understanding and thus interpreting the term 'checksum offload' which is > a feature of nge(4) and lge(4) drivers. Does it mean that the > controllers are able to compute TCP/IP checksums in hardware thus taking > off load from CPU? Don't hesitate to tell me I'm stupid and this has > nothing to do with TCP/IP :) Yes, that's the point of checksum offloading. > Oh, and what's a jumbogram? Large frames, larger than standard ethernet MTU, afaik they're 8 or 9k. -- -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] Ok, who wrote this damn function called '??'? And why do my programs keep crashing in it? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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