On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 08:07:20AM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Has anything changed recently in how e1000 handles checksum
> > offload ? My desktop box has been rock solid for months,
> > but the last few weeks I've noticed a lot of timeouts
> > over http etc.
> >
> > Further investigation with ethereal showed incorrect tcp checksums
> > on certain packets.
>
> Is that inbound or outbound?
>
> Outgoing packets with TX checksum offload will always show incorrect
> checksums in AF_PACKET since the checksum is only performed once the
> packet reaches the hardware.
Hmm, that does make sense.
Maybe the problem exists elsewhere, as thinking more about it,
it's only certain sites that seem to have the problem
(I notice it mostly on bugzilla.redhat.com, but that's probably
due to the amount of time I spend there :-)
Dave
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