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 -- Vinay Bannai E-mail: bannai@best.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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