From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 25 18:37:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA04978 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 18:37:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tokyonet-entrance.astec.co.jp (tokyonet-entrance.astec.co.jp [202.239.16.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA04904 for ; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 18:36:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hamada@astec.co.jp) Received: from amont.astec.co.jp (amont.astec.co.jp [172.20.10.1]) by tokyonet-entrance.astec.co.jp (8.8.8+2.7Wbeta7/3.6W-astecMX2.3) with ESMTP id LAA16510; Thu, 26 Feb 1998 11:36:32 +0900 (JST) Received: from stone.astec.co.jp (stone.astec.co.jp [172.20.10.23]) by amont.astec.co.jp (8.7.6/3.6Wbeta5-astecMX2.4) with ESMTP id LAA11880; Thu, 26 Feb 1998 11:36:30 +0900 (JST) Received: (from hamada@localhost) by stone.astec.co.jp (8.8.5/3.5W-solaris1-1.2) id LAA07202; Thu, 26 Feb 1998 11:36:27 +0900 (JST) To: FreeBSD Hackers CC: freebsd@isvara.net From: Naoki Hamada Subject: Re: "Best" Fast Ethernet Card References: <34F4B19E.E2C3286B@challenge.isvara.net> Date: 26 Feb 1998 11:36:25 +0900 In-Reply-To: freebsd@isvara.net's message of Thu, 26 Feb 1998 00:04:46 +0000 Message-ID: Lines: 12 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message