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From: Rask Ingemann Lambertsen <rask@sygehus.dk>
To: "'netdev@oss.sgi.com'" <netdev@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: RFC:  Enabling ethernet drivers to return FCS in the skb?
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 12:35:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031119123556.A7622@sygehus.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FB94311.10004@candelatech.com>; from greearb@candelatech.com on Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 01:52:17PM -0800

On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 01:52:17PM -0800, Ben Greear wrote:
> Is there any interest in adding an Ethtool command to tell the driver to
> push the extra 4 bytes of CSUM into the skb?
> 
> When enabling this feature, I'd also like to allow drivers to receive
> frames with bad FCS as well.
[cut]
> At least some hardware appears
> to support receiving bad FCS frames (e1000, evidently), but I am not sure
> how wide-spread this feature is...

The Intel i82586 and i82596 and can be told to receive frames with a bad FCS.
They can also be told to send a precomputed FCS rather than computing it on
the fly. The i82596 and tulip can also transfer the FCS to memory when
receiving frames. I guess all of this is also supported on the i82557/8/9.

-- 
Regards,
Rask Ingemann Lambertsen

  reply	other threads:[~2003-11-19 11:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-17 21:52 RFC: Enabling ethernet drivers to return FCS in the skb? Ben Greear
2003-11-19 11:35 ` Rask Ingemann Lambertsen [this message]
2003-11-19 13:20   ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2003-11-19 15:33   ` Ben Greear
2003-11-20 16:34     ` Rask Ingemann Lambertsen
2003-11-23  9:02       ` Ben Greear
2003-11-24  0:05         ` Rask Ingemann Lambertsen

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