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Date:      Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:43:36 -0400
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bz@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh@gmail.com>, FreeBSD net mailing list <freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org>, "George V. Neville-Neil" <gnn@FreeBSD.org>, Michael Tuexen <tuexen@FreeBSD.org>, Navdeep Parhar <np@FreeBSD.org>, Andrew Thompson <thompsa@FreeBSD.org>, Jack F Vogel <jfv@FreeBSD.org>, Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@FreeBSD.org>, Pyun YongHyeon <yongari@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: Ethernet NIC drivers depending unconditionally on INET
Message-ID:  <4A3293C8.5070101@cs.duke.edu>
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Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Jun 2009, Navdeep Parhar wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 10:56:31AM +0000, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
>>> On Fri, 12 Jun 2009, Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>> Yeah, there are no checksum offloading support for IPv6 under
>>>> FreeBSD so there are no cases the frames are IPv6 when
>>>> CSUM_IP/CSUM_TCP/CSUM_UDP/CSUM_TSO was set.
>>>
>>> The thing that scared me was sys/netinet/tcp_subr.c:tcp_maxmtu6().
>>>
>>> What I had missed was the CSUM_TSO6  (the 6 at the end) part.
>>> grepping through the tree I am even wondering a lot more now when I
>>> see what cxgb(4) is doing with that;)
>>
>> I can't find a CSUM_TSO6 in head, did you mean IFCAP_TSO6?
> 
> yes I did.
> 
>> cxgb(4)
>> will not let you enable IFCAP_TSO6 on the interface.  It has always
>> been disallowed as far as I can tell.
> 
> Yes, you have it in the logic bu you define it to 0;)
>     #define IFCAP_TSO6 0x0

So I guess TSO6 has never been tested at all on any interface on
Freebsd.  Is this true?

Drew



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