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[src/trunk]: src/sbin/ifconfig PR/50933: Uwe Toenjes: Document hardware limit...



details:   https://anonhg.NetBSD.org/src/rev/dde9878ffbec
branches:  trunk
changeset: 960148:dde9878ffbec
user:      christos <christos%NetBSD.org@localhost>
date:      Tue Mar 09 14:39:43 2021 +0000

description:
PR/50933: Uwe Toenjes: Document hardware limitations

diffstat:

 sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.8 |  12 ++++++++++--
 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diffs (33 lines):

diff -r 0cd91ac4d8bd -r dde9878ffbec sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.8
--- a/sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.8  Tue Mar 09 13:48:16 2021 +0000
+++ b/sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.8  Tue Mar 09 14:39:43 2021 +0000
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"    $NetBSD: ifconfig.8,v 1.121 2020/09/29 08:52:11 msaitoh Exp $
+.\"    $NetBSD: ifconfig.8,v 1.122 2021/03/09 14:39:43 christos Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1991, 1993
 .\"    The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 .\"
 .\"     @(#)ifconfig.8 8.4 (Berkeley) 6/1/94
 .\"
-.Dd September 29, 2020
+.Dd March 9, 2021
 .Dt IFCONFIG 8
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -904,6 +904,14 @@
 .\" .Xr eon 5 ,
 .Xr rc 8 ,
 .Xr routed 8
+.Sh BUGS
+Due to hardware limitations some of the capabilities cannot be turned on
+and off individually and need to be specified together.
+For example the
+.Xr ixg 4
+driver can't enable separately tcp and udp, or the transmit and receive
+checksumming capabilities.
+Unfortunately the diagnostic messages in this case are lacking.
 .Sh HISTORY
 The
 .Nm



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