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Date:      Mon, 13 May 2002 12:01:30 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc:        David Greenman-Lawrence <dg@root.com>, jamie@tridentmicrosystems.co.uk, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Broadcom BCM5701 Chipset problems
Message-ID:  <200205131901.g4DJ1U8s069604@apollo.backplane.com>
References:  <20020513115600.A50967@mufuf.trident-uk.co.uk> <3CDFF60C.48A2EA65@mindspring.com> <20020513102526.H72322@nexus.root.com> <200205131758.g4DHwJFj068941@apollo.backplane.com> <3CE00B14.E8CA43A8@mindspring.com>

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:This is depressing.
:
:The Dell PowerEdge 2550's use the BGE driver (Tigon III).  I'm really
:surprised that the problem exists on the Tigon III.  My personal
:experience with Tigon III's was that the hardware checksumming was
:working.  Maybe my testing was too lax.  8-(.

    Yup.  Of course I am completely Jaded now after listening to B.P.
    curse the chipset while he was debugging it :-)

:My local copy of the -STABLE source tree leaves BGE_CSUM_FEATURES set
:on in the driver; is there a change that needs to be MFC'ed to turn
:these suckers off?
:...
:There's no similar comment in the if_bge.c ...
:

    Well, that entire section of code is #if 0'd out in -stable's 
    BGE driver (/usr/src/sys/dev/bge/if_bge.c line 1981).  The
    comment reads:

    #if 0 /* currently broken for some packets, possibly related to TCP options */

    So even with BGE_CSUM_FEATURES set, it should all be turned off now.
    This change was made on 14-December-01 by DG.  Anyone with an earlier
    driver may be running with checksums enabled.

:Can you guys elaborate on the problem?  Was it on incoming checksums,
:outgoing checksums, or both?
:...
:Thanks,
:-- Terry

    It was on incoming checksums I believe.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon@backplane.com>

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