Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 14:46:01 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Giovanni Picoli Tirloni <tirloni@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What is 'checksum offload'? Message-ID: <20010817144601.A30703@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <20010817181316.R370-100000@mink.ath.cx>; from tirloni@users.sourceforge.net on Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 06:22:19PM -0300 References: <20010817012926.O38066@elvis.mu.org> <20010817181316.R370-100000@mink.ath.cx>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 06:22:19PM -0300, Giovanni Picoli Tirloni wrote: > > Is there a FastEthernet card that has this feature? I'm not sure if > it'd be all that useful since the throughput isn't as high as in > gigabit ethernet but perhaps it has its uses in a CPU limited device. > Just curious. Yes. The cards supported by the txp driver support checksum offloading, however, the driver currently supports it on recieve only. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7fZCZXY6L6fI4GtQRAoyCAKCqUFvfQVbwG3oKuY+a80j3efD1hQCgy1mm HVblHwHN9msGSbN9IrJ5uSU= =ifJq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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