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Date:      Sat, 15 Jan 2005 23:30:45 -0600 (CST)
From:      Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
To:        John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/re if_re.c
Message-ID:  <20050115232853.P1020@odysseus.silby.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050105001620.GZ19624@funkthat.com>
References:  <200501050006.j0506FvV057370@repoman.freebsd.org> <20050105001620.GZ19624@funkthat.com>

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On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, John-Mark Gurney wrote:

> Olivier Houchard wrote this message on Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 00:06 +0000:
>>   Disable checksum offloading by default. It seems to produce corrupted packets
>>   with some revisions of the chip (particularly when using multiple TX
>>   descriptors).
>
> Ummm... do you have documentation on this?  i.e. PR numbers or message
> id's, or even better, an errata from RealTek?
>
> Also, make sure you update the documentation...
>
> -- 
>  John-Mark Gurney				Voice: +1 415 225 5579

Maybe, and I'm just throwing this out there... maybe when INVARIANTS is 
compiled in, the kernel should re-check RX checksums, and print a warning 
if the card goofed.  It'd be interesting to see if that showed previously 
unknown bugs.

Mike "Silby" Silbersack



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