Subject: Re: wm*?
To: John Klos <john@ziaspace.com>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
List: port-macppc
Date: 05/12/2005 09:43:59
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On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 07:26:46PM -0700, John Klos wrote:
> Hi,
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> Does anyone know whether wm* (Intel gigabit ethernet) cards on macppcc ca=
n=20
> be used with hardware tcp / udp / ip checksumming? As of 1.6.2, they coul=
d=20
> not.

I'm running a 1.6H kernel (yeah, it's ancient) and have a wm card in. It=20
works fine.

I turned off checksumming because my router used to have problems with it=
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(we messed up forwarding when we had checksum offload active). I've never=
=20
gotten around to re-adding it.

tanis> ifconfig wm0
wm0: flags=3D8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        capabilities=3D7<IP4CSUM,TCP4CSUM,UDP4CSUM>
        enabled=3D0<>
        address: 00:07:e9:00:a5:eb
        media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex)
        status: active
        inet 10.3.0.2 netmask 0xffff0000 broadcast 10.3.255.255
        inet6 fe80::207:e9ff:fe00:a5eb%wm0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
        inet6 2002:42a6:bc3e:3::2 prefixlen 64

Take care,

Bill

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