Re: Recommendations about a 100/10 NIC

Dan Maas (dmaas@dcine.com)
Mon, 4 Mar 2002 01:49:53 -0500


> I have a 3com 905b, the current model is a 3com 905C-TX
> like you mentioned. Which of those cards supports calculating
> ethernet checksums in hardware?

Based on my reading of 3c59x.c, 3c905B and 3c905C cards - but not the
original 3c905 - will do TCP checksums in hardware (and thus enable
zero-copy data transfer).

Regards,
Dan

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