Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 12:06 -0400, sowmini.varadhan at sun.com wrote:
>
>
>>e data-point: the bge driver on my XP allows me
>>to choose the following through the Control panel for "checksum
>>offload":
>>{none, rx tcp/ip checksum, tx tcp/ip checksum, tx/rx tcp/ip checksum}.
>>The last one appears to be on by default.
>>
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>>
>
>My gut feeling is that, no, this should not be a customer accessible
>tunable. I know some folks don't agree with me... Bill Sommerfeld for
>instance.... but in general, having more knobs usually adds confusion,
>and this is one knob that I don't think customers should have to tune...
>the only reason I can justify for ever using it is to work around busted
>hardware/software, and in those cases the hardware should be replaced or
>the device driver patched.
>
>
Indeed...but it is nice to have the means for customers to
implement a "workaround" while we churn out a patch (not
something that happens "overnight".)
Being able to tinker with this, to me, seems similar to
tinkering with speed/duplex. Sometimes it is necessary
(or helps), but most of the time it isn't.
Darren
