From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Oct 18 2:10:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FB0737B401 for ; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 02:10:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from MX2.estpak.ee (ld1.estpak.ee [194.126.101.98]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F295943E8A for ; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 02:10:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kalts@estpak.ee) Received: from tiiu.internal (adsl12038.estpak.ee [213.219.94.218]) by MX2.estpak.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19A81734E2; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 12:09:58 +0300 (EEST) Received: from tiiu.internal (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tiiu.internal (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g9I9AhK2001743; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 12:10:44 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from vallo@tiiu.internal) Received: (from vallo@localhost) by tiiu.internal (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g9I9AgWO001742; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 12:10:42 +0300 (EEST) Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 12:10:42 +0300 From: Vallo Kallaste To: Jamie Heckford Cc: Don Bowman , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Compaq GIGA NIC Message-ID: <20021018091042.GA1591@tiiu.internal> Reply-To: kalts@estpak.ee References: <001501c275eb$a9328560$3264a8c0@BONG> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <001501c275eb$a9328560$3264a8c0@BONG> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i-ja.1 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 03:44:11PM +0100, Jamie Heckford wrote: > Last time we tried this driver (around 4.6-RELEASE) we had massive > problems with the chipset occasionally incorrectly checking TCP > checksums... which caused the interface to lock up. > > I think someone posted a workaround to disable the hardware > checksum checking feature - but we only had these cards onboard in > our production servers. > > Maybe its corrected now... who knows?? By the sounds of it you > aren't having any issues :-) Ugh, top posting.. It seems that John Polstra has fixed the problem you're describing. Basically switched off one of the hardware checksumming functions if I remember. -- Vallo Kallaste kalts@estpak.ee To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message