From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 19 10:31:00 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 349D916A400; Mon, 19 Mar 2007 10:31:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from avg@icyb.net.ua) Received: from gateway.cybervisiontech.com.ua (gateway.cybervisiontech.com.ua [88.81.251.18]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5956913C45D; Mon, 19 Mar 2007 10:30:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from avg@icyb.net.ua) Received: from localhost (hq.cybervisiontech.com [127.0.0.1]) by gateway.cybervisiontech.com.ua (Postfix) with ESMTP id B64E3ED4419; Mon, 19 Mar 2007 12:30:53 +0200 (EET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at cybervisiontech.com Received: from gateway.cybervisiontech.com.ua ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (hq.cybervisiontech.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id tUl4S+Iz+-er; Mon, 19 Mar 2007 12:30:48 +0200 (EET) Received: from [10.2.1.87] (rein.cybervisiontech.com.ua [10.2.1.87]) by gateway.cybervisiontech.com.ua (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D2A9ED400B; Mon, 19 Mar 2007 12:30:48 +0200 (EET) Message-ID: <45FE665A.7030704@icyb.net.ua> Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 12:30:50 +0200 From: Andriy Gapon User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070315) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: pyunyh@gmail.com References: <45FACBE4.5090403@icyb.net.ua> <20070319102444.GD13303@cdnetworks.co.kr> In-Reply-To: <20070319102444.GD13303@cdnetworks.co.kr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nve: ethernet address reversal code X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 10:31:00 -0000 on 19/03/2007 12:24 Pyun YongHyeon said the following: > > Unlike other MCP hardwares, MCP61/MCP65/MCP67 stores ethernet address > in-order. nve(4)/nfe(4) should not swap ethernet address on these > hardwares. Peer Chen at NVIDIA and Shigeaki Tagashira sent me patches > to the issue and I've updated new nfe(4). > If you use CURRENT, try updated nfe(4) at the following URL. > > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/if_nfe.c > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/if_nfereg.h > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/if_nfevar.h > > For more detailed revision history and RELENG_6 sources, see > http://www.se.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~shigeaki/software/freebsd-nfe.html Pyun, thank you very much for this clarification! I hope that nve gets patched as well. I have been meaning to try nfe for some time now, but I am still using nve as it works well for me (judging from the lists this is not the universal case). -- Andriy Gapon