On 04/06/2012 08:37 AM, Wyborny, Carolyn wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Ben Greear [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2012 3:58 PM >> To: Wyborny, Carolyn >> Cc: e1000-devel list >> Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] Question on igb and rx-fcs. >> > [..] >> Did you find any time to pursue this? > > Hello Ben, > > We've created a sample driver that disables the FCS stripping and *were* able > to see the FCS in the packet. We disabled this in the rx_init and I can send > you a source.tar if you're interested. We didn't test it with your patches > though, just the regular driver seeing if disabling the FCS stripping caused > it to show in the packet. We saw it with Wireshark. We also have an > internal customer test team is working to try and repro the problem with that > driver in their environment as well, but I wanted to give you a heads up that > we did see that FCS with 82580.
Could you post the patch that you added to your internal driver to make it work? > I think the patches are not all accepted/available yet upstream. If you want > to package up the whole latest set and send them to me privately, we can take > a look at that as well. I'm stacked up with other things at the moment, but will try to get at this next week. I think most of my patches are in 3.0.4-rc1, but I have not actually checked or tried running that kernel yet. The igb rx-fcs patch should not be upstream since I never got it working. Thanks, Ben > > Thanks, > > Carolyn -- Ben Greear <[email protected]> Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ For Developers, A Lot Can Happen In A Second. Boundary is the first to Know...and Tell You. Monitor Your Applications in Ultra-Fine Resolution. Try it FREE! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-d2dvs2 _______________________________________________ E1000-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/e1000-devel To learn more about Intel® Ethernet, visit http://communities.intel.com/community/wired
