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Date:      Mon, 2 Mar 1998 00:12:48 -0800 (PST)
From:      Vinay Bannai <bannai@best.com>
To:        andreas@klemm.gtn.com (Andreas Klemm)
Cc:        bannai@best.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: "Best" Fast Ethernet Card
Message-ID:  <199803020812.AAA00813@shell6.ba.best.com>
In-Reply-To: <19980301131921.45593@klemm.gtn.com> from Andreas Klemm at "Mar 1, 98 01:19:21 pm"

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According to Andreas Klemm:
> On Fri, Feb 27, 1998 at 04:13:12PM -0800, Vinay Bannai wrote:
> > 
> > Yup. The ifnet device has a flag which indicates that it is capable of
> > doing checksum in the hardware and you set this flag in the mbufs and pass
> > it along. This is pretty usefule when computing checksumn in hardware for
> > transmits too.
> > 
> > I know of atleast two protocol stack implementations (popular too) that
> > use these techniques...
> 
> Which one ?
> 
> Is it a secret ? ;-)
> 

I don't if it is a secret. But if you must know, I do work for a
relatvilely large super computer firm based in Minneosota but work from
their Mountian View office. :-)

Vinay
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Vinay Bannai                     E-mail: bannai@best.com



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