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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
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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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