Subject: Re: Hardware checksums
To: None <netbsd-users@NetBSD.org>
From: Matthias Scheler <tron@zhadum.org.uk>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 10/24/2006 17:48:51
On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 02:46:00PM +0100, Matthias Scheler wrote:
> > 2 nights ago I upgraded a box with a 3C905 from NetBSD 2.0 E
> > (1 May 2004) to current, so I can safely say that 1.6 (and 2.0E)
> > ifconfig didn't know about tcp4csum, but current does. (Can't
> > remember when it came in - guess 3.0?)
> 
> No, 2.0 (which is newer than 2.0E) already supported hardware checksum.

Actually both of the above statements are wrong:
1.) NetBSD 1.6 already had support for checksum offload. It didn't
    support all options later NetBSD versions support but at least
    network interface which support full IPv4 IP, UDP and TCP
    checksum support.

2.) NetBSD 2.0E is of course newer than NetBSD 2.0.
    (I really hate the old versioning scheme).

	Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://zhadum.org.uk/