Ilya Shipitsin <chipits...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm running servers with "em" NICs.  People on list reported things
> like 
> "hwfeatures=8037<CSUM_IPv4,CSUM_TCPv4,CSUM_UDPv4,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,WOL>",
> I do not see such options in ifconfig output.

Try "ifconfig em0 hwfeatures" on -current.

> neither man page on "em" says anything about check sum offload.

Liar.

  The em driver supports IPv4 receive IP/TCP/UDP checksum offload on all
  but 82542-based adapters, VLAN tag insertion and stripping, and Jumbo
  frames on all but 82562V, 82566DC/82566DM and 82573E/82573L/82573V-based
  adapters.

> "em" are advanced cards, do they already do all things out of a box?

Yes.

> ifconfig also shows "media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT
> full-duplex,rxpause,txpause)", what is rxpause,txpause ?

Ethernet flow control.

-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          na...@mips.inka.de

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