Re: [GIT] Networking

Dave Jones
2014-06-13T14:44:31Z

On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 07:28:33AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 11:59 PM, Johannes Berg
> <johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
> >
> > is to be believed, then I'm not sure why you think iwlwifi is involved
> > though.
>
> Mainly just because I don't see the issue on my desktop, and iwlwifi
> is the only network device (apart from looback) on my laptop. And it
> does say "hw checksum", so that made me think it's the driver.
>
> But:
>
> > If it's iwlwifi, then maybe that commit broke something with devices
> > that don't support checksumming?
>
> that sounds quite possible.

I see it on my router with two r8169 cards too.
That does seem to support hw csum, though only on jumbo frames maybe?

Dave