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Date:      Fri, 18 Oct 2002 12:10:42 +0300
From:      Vallo Kallaste <kalts@estpak.ee>
To:        Jamie Heckford <jamie@jamiesdomain.org.uk>
Cc:        Don Bowman <don@sandvine.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Compaq GIGA NIC
Message-ID:  <20021018091042.GA1591@tiiu.internal>
In-Reply-To: <001501c275eb$a9328560$3264a8c0@BONG>
References:  <FE045D4D9F7AED4CBFF1B3B813C8533701022CB1@mail.sandvine.com> <001501c275eb$a9328560$3264a8c0@BONG>

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On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 03:44:11PM +0100, Jamie Heckford
<jamie@jamiesdomain.org.uk> wrote:

> Last time we tried this driver (around 4.6-RELEASE) we had massive
> problems with the chipset occasionally  incorrectly checking TCP
> checksums... which caused the interface to lock up.
> 
> I think someone posted a workaround to disable the hardware
> checksum checking feature - but we only had these cards onboard in
> our production servers.
> 
> Maybe its corrected now... who knows?? By the sounds of it you
> aren't having any issues :-)

Ugh, top posting..
It seems that John Polstra has fixed the problem you're describing.
Basically switched off one of the hardware checksumming functions if
I remember.
-- 

Vallo Kallaste
kalts@estpak.ee

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