Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 18:54:14 -0600 (CST) From: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com> To: sam@errno.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Request for review (HW checksum patches) Message-ID: <200003260054.SAA29035@prism.flugsvamp.com> In-Reply-To: <local.mail.freebsd-hackers/20000325232027$00e6@prism.flugsvamp.com> References: <local.mail.freebsd-hackers/200003252050.MAA08969@scv1.apple.com>
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In article <local.mail.freebsd-hackers/20000325232027$00e6@prism.flugsvamp.com> you write: >FWIW, Win2000 has a mechanism for dealing with what they call task >offloading. If you decide to attack the problem, an inexpensive device you >can use for testing is the 3C905B; it does IP+TCP checksums. Yes, unfortunately it doesn't handle fragments at all. I looked at the card specs when devising the interface, to make sure that the new interface will be able to handle various chips. I haven't changed the 3com driver though, as I didn't want to spend time trying to figure out what the chip actually does vs what the manual says it does. -- Jonathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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