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Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 14:46:01 -0700
From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To: Giovanni Picoli Tirloni <tirloni@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: What is 'checksum offload'?
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On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 06:22:19PM -0300, Giovanni Picoli Tirloni wrote:
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>  Is there a FastEthernet card that has this feature? I'm not sure if
>  it'd be all that useful since the throughput isn't as high as in
>  gigabit ethernet but perhaps it has its uses in a CPU limited device.
>  Just curious.

Yes.  The cards supported by the txp driver support checksum offloading,
however, the driver currently supports it on recieve only.

-- Brooks

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