At 11:57:21.06 on 4-MAY-2012 in message
<31404_1336146947_4fa3fc02_31404_7854_1_4fa2a613.1000...@a1poweruser.com>,
Fbsd8 <[email protected]> wrote:
>Darren Reed wrote:
>>
>> I almost certainly guarantee you that this is to do with the different
>> NIC chips having different capabilities such as hardware checksum
>> and that these are interfering with ipfilter.
>>
>> Darren
>>
>
>Ok I believe you that is the cause of the problem.
>So this is really a bug in ipfilter that needs correction.
>Since this was not the case in the past when motherboards
>did not have built in Nics and since the pc manufactures have
>standardized on including nics on motherboards that offload some
>processes to the chip hardware for better performance, It seems only
>logical that ipfilter needs to be updated to be aware of these hardware
>process and take the correct action so the reported error condition does
>not occur any more. This problem is a SHOW STOPPER.
>
>Are you going to address this?
>
>
Where might we find the full thread of this topic? Reading between
the lines, is it recommended that we should not enable NIC-based offload
processing under ipfilter?
Regards,
Mike
