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Date:      Fri, 28 Sep 2001 08:19:40 -0500
From:      Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc:        Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com>, the_srinivas@hotmail.com, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: TCP&IP cksum offload on FreeBSD 4.2
Message-ID:  <20010928081940.S9056@prism.flugsvamp.com>
In-Reply-To: <3BB42E50.B32F5E95@mindspring.com>
References:  <200109270157.f8R1vZ546863@prism.flugsvamp.com> <3BB42E50.B32F5E95@mindspring.com>

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On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 01:01:20AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
> Jonathan Lemon wrote:
> > >I'm trying to use the TCP&IP checksum offload capability of the Netgear
> > >GA620 NIC from a SMP FreeBSD 4.2R system running on a typical PIII SBC.
> > >I did enable TCP&IP cksum offload for receive operations by setting the
> > >if_hwassist flag in the driver /sys/pci/if_ti.c and verified that it is
> > >working. However I'm unable to offload TCP&IP checksum for the send
> > >operations.
> > 
> > All you need to do is uncomment the TI_CSUM_FEATURES flag at the top
> > of the file, and recompile.
> 
> He didn't say his packet size, either.
> 
> To the original poster: if you are sending jumbograms, the
> buffer size on these cards is limited, so the entire packet
> can't be in the card buffer at the same time, which means
> that you can not offload the send checksum for jumbograms,
> only for regular sized packets.

This is true for the nge driver.  Does it apply to the ti driver as well?  
-- 
Jonathan

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