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Date:      Fri, 12 Jul 2002 12:00:48 -0500
From:      Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com>
To:        "Cambria, Mike" <mcambria@avaya.com>
Cc:        "'Jonathan Lemon'" <jlemon@flugsvamp.com>, cambria@world.std.com, net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: xl checksum and dsniff
Message-ID:  <20020712120048.B8927@prism.flugsvamp.com>
In-Reply-To: <3A6D367EA1EFD4118C9B00A0C9DD99D7065A34@rerun.avayactc.com>
References:  <3A6D367EA1EFD4118C9B00A0C9DD99D7065A34@rerun.avayactc.com>

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On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 09:06:13AM -0400, Cambria, Mike wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jonathan Lemon [mailto:jlemon@flugsvamp.com]
> >> >
> > >My guess is that doing hw checksum by the nic could be the 
> > issue.  This is
> > >the only real difference I can see at present.
> > >
> > >Any ideas?
> > 
> > Test your theory.  Turn off hardware checksums with 'ifconfig 
> > xl0 -txcsum'
> 
> When I do 'ifconfig xl0 -txcsum', a subsequent 'ifconfig' reads as if the
> command had no effect.  In other words, ifconfig shows
> options=3<rxcsum,txcsum> still.

Oh, hmm.  It appears that this driver doesn't support disabling checksums.
For the time being, you can recompile the driver, and manually disable the
checksums by editing the define at the top of the file:

	#define XL905B_CSUM_FEATURES 	0
-- 
Jonathan

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