From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Mar 25 20:33:59 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 DC45237B908 for ; Sat, 25 Mar 2000 20:33:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jlemon@flugsvamp.com) Received: (from jlemon@localhost) by prism.flugsvamp.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA35057; Sat, 25 Mar 2000 22:36:24 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from jlemon) Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 22:36:24 -0600 From: Jonathan Lemon To: Keith Stevenson Cc: Jonathan Lemon , justin@apple.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Request for review (HW checksum patches) Message-ID: <20000325223624.L71371@prism.flugsvamp.com> References: <200003260056.SAA29089@prism.flugsvamp.com> <20000325212533.B73602@osaka.louisville.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <20000325212533.B73602@osaka.louisville.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 09:25:33PM -0500, Keith Stevenson wrote: > On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 06:56:42PM -0600, Jonathan Lemon wrote: > > > > The patches I have were designed to solve a single problem, just > > checksum offloading. There are enough bits left in the new flag field > > that you could use for something else, I don't know enough about what > > you'd want to do to say if it's enough for a general mechanism. > > Which card(s) do your patches support? I have a 3Com 3CR990-TX (typhoon) > which does both TCP checksumming and 3DES (for IPSec). I'd love to give > it a try. Right now, just the Alteon cards. Support for the 3Com-XL can probably be added without too much trouble. I don't see a driver for the 3Com-990 though, and I can't find a reference to it on the 3Com website, is this a new card? -- Jonathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message