On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > At this level, you're basically screwed. A sofware checksum isn't > even an option on other PCI users, like disk controllers. If you > don't trust your PCI chipset, what do you do about things like that? > > I'm rather curious -- what was the problematic hardware combination?
Can't say yet :-( But it is one of the fancy network interfaces that essentially runs an RTOS on the NIC so it can "help you". Actually fancy $5000 network interfaces are in general less reliable than your average garden-variety $2 IDE chip. Partly because they have so much capability. So we don't worry a lot about lossage with IDE. But it's a big problem on expensive, high end, high performance network interfaces. ron To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
