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Date:      26 Feb 1998 11:36:25 +0900
From:      Naoki Hamada <nao@tom-yam.or.jp>
To:        FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        freebsd@isvara.net
Subject:   Re: "Best" Fast Ethernet Card
Message-ID:  <ixpvkbytw6.fsf@astec.co.jp>
In-Reply-To: freebsd@isvara.net's message of Thu, 26 Feb 1998 00:04:46 %2B0000
References:  <34F4B19E.E2C3286B@challenge.isvara.net>

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Daniel J Blueman wrote:
>One *great* bonus is it will do IP, TCP and UDP checksums 
>automagically in hardware!
>
>This will lower CPU usage quite a bit AFAICT, assuming 
>processor time is not eaten up by the drivers unduly.

Though this feature is quite attractive, there should be a quite
horrible layer violating kluge to implement it. Do you have any good
idea?

- nao

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