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Date:      Fri, 12 Jul 2002 10:43:24 -0700
From:      Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org>
To:        Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com>
Cc:        "Cambria, Mike" <mcambria@avaya.com>, cambria@world.std.com, net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: xl checksum and dsniff
Message-ID:  <20020712104324.A54624@iguana.icir.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020712120048.B8927@prism.flugsvamp.com>; from jlemon@flugsvamp.com on Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 12:00:48PM -0500
References:  <3A6D367EA1EFD4118C9B00A0C9DD99D7065A34@rerun.avayactc.com> <20020712120048.B8927@prism.flugsvamp.com>

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Actually, I seem to remember that the ifconfig output only shows
the driver's capabilities, not the actual setting.

	cheers
	luigi

On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 12:00:48PM -0500, Jonathan Lemon wrote:
> 
> 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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