Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 02:59:40 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: David Greenman <dg@root.com> Cc: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>, rsharpe@ns.aus.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Does anyone know if the Broadcom BCM5700 has problems with HW csum? Message-ID: <3C1B2D1C.2A148A9C@mindspring.com> References: <3C1AEA9E.6010502@ns.aus.com> <20011214214118.A30560@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <3C1AF362.534BD2F7@mindspring.com> <20011215005739.A84861@nexus.root.com>
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David Greenman wrote: > >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. OK; it was worth a shot, since Broadcom was known to get that part wrong (they blew it big time on the Tigon II firmware). Too bad; the checksum offload is usually really helpful, if you can get arounf the quirks. 8^(. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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