From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Dec 15 1: 8:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from root.com (unknown [209.102.106.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97EF837B416 for ; Sat, 15 Dec 2001 01:08:20 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dg@localhost) by root.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) id fBF8vdk84884; Sat, 15 Dec 2001 00:57:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dg) Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 00:57:39 -0800 From: David Greenman To: Terry Lambert Cc: Brooks Davis , rsharpe@ns.aus.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Does anyone know if the Broadcom BCM5700 has problems with HW csum? Message-ID: <20011215005739.A84861@nexus.root.com> References: <3C1AEA9E.6010502@ns.aus.com> <20011214214118.A30560@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <3C1AF362.534BD2F7@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3C1AF362.534BD2F7@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 10:53:22PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Brooks Davis wrote: >> There was a commit to current a few hours ago disabling hardware >> checksums on recieve due to corruption problems. It will be MFC'd in >> three days though it's a two line fix so you could apply it your self: >> >> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/bge/if_bge.c.diff?r1=1.4&r2=1.5 > >I believe you will find that the problem is related to the firmware >handling of VLAN tagging, and that the problem only exists if VLAN >tagging is enabled. You would believe wrongly, then, because the problem that I was seeing did not involve VLAN tags. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message