Re: Gigabit Linux Server Bottlenecks

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 9 Feb 2000 12:10:57 +0000 (GMT)


> not, but the 905B and 905C do.
> Countless other 'good' chipsets also support it too, eg Intel Etherexpress.

The EEPro100B's checksum on transmit doesnt appear to be documented however.
3Com do document there interface.

> I wonder how 3com implemented all this in their own linux driver.........
> There are lots of tweak to be made :o) .

They dont implement the transmit checksum by hardware in it. It needs support
elsewhere in the kernel

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