Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 11:11:48 +0400 From: Alex Kapranoff <kapr@acm.org> To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: What is 'checksum offload'? Message-ID: <20010816111147.A1328@kapran.bitmcnit.bryansk.su>
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Good day, I'm in the process of translation release notes and have trouble understanding and thus interpreting the term 'checksum offload' which is a feature of nge(4) and lge(4) drivers. Does it mean that the controllers are able to compute TCP/IP checksums in hardware thus taking off load from CPU? Don't hesitate to tell me I'm stupid and this has nothing to do with TCP/IP :) Oh, and what's a jumbogram? Can someone clarify this with one or two sentences to a man with a negligible Ethernet knowledge? Thanks! -- Alex Kapranoff, Voice: +7(0832)791845 We've lived 5457 hours in the brand new millenium... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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