From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Mar 25 16:51:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from prism.flugsvamp.com (cb58709-a.mdsn1.wi.home.com [24.17.241.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAB4A37B7B2 for ; Sat, 25 Mar 2000 16:51:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jlemon@flugsvamp.com) Received: (from jlemon@localhost) by prism.flugsvamp.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA29035; Sat, 25 Mar 2000 18:54:14 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from jlemon) Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 18:54:14 -0600 (CST) From: Jonathan Lemon Message-Id: <200003260054.SAA29035@prism.flugsvamp.com> To: sam@errno.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Request for review (HW checksum patches) X-Newsgroups: local.mail.freebsd-hackers In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Cc: Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article 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