Re: MPLS patches

[Darren Reed <darrenr%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Mihai Chelaru wrote:
> Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
>>
>> If possible make it work without the additional hard-wired case for
>> disabling HW cksumming.
> 
> Will a NIC compute cksum for a packet that isn't IP from ethertype of
> view ? I admit I'm clueless regarding HW checksumming chapter.

It depends on the card.

For some, hardware checksum is programmed by start/end offsets into
the packet.

Darren