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Date:      Mon, 19 Mar 2007 12:30:50 +0200
From:      Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua>
To:        pyunyh@gmail.com
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: nve: ethernet address reversal code
Message-ID:  <45FE665A.7030704@icyb.net.ua>
In-Reply-To: <20070319102444.GD13303@cdnetworks.co.kr>
References:  <45FACBE4.5090403@icyb.net.ua> <20070319102444.GD13303@cdnetworks.co.kr>

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on 19/03/2007 12:24 Pyun YongHyeon said the following:
> 
> Unlike other MCP hardwares, MCP61/MCP65/MCP67 stores ethernet address
> in-order. nve(4)/nfe(4) should not swap ethernet address on these
> hardwares. Peer Chen at NVIDIA and Shigeaki Tagashira sent me patches
> to the issue and I've updated new nfe(4).
> If you use CURRENT, try updated nfe(4) at the following URL.
> 
> http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/if_nfe.c
> http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/if_nfereg.h
> http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/if_nfevar.h
> 
> For more detailed revision history and RELENG_6 sources, see
> http://www.se.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~shigeaki/software/freebsd-nfe.html

Pyun,

thank you very much for this clarification!

I hope that nve gets patched as well.
I have been meaning to try nfe for some time now, but I am still using
nve as it works well for me (judging from the lists this is not the
universal case).


-- 
Andriy Gapon



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