Subject: Re: choice of NIC [was Re: questions about netbsd]
To: Pavel Cahyna <pcah8322@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
From: Dave Huang <khym@azeotrope.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/09/2003 14:15:06
On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 05:49:54PM +0100, Pavel Cahyna wrote:
> > Yes, the wm driver can do it, but can't use hardware checksums + vlans at
> > the same time.
> 
> Thanks! It would be good to have an note in wm(4) man page about this,
> as it is there already for ex(4).

The manpage has had the note since August 2002, actually:

     The i8254x supports IPv4/TCP/UDP checksumming in hardware.  
     The wm driver supports this feature of the chip.  See 
     ifconfig(8) for information on how to enable this feature.
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