On 2007/09/17 13:43, slug bait wrote: > Bingo! I figured out that it was a problem with the checksum offloading > shortly after my original email but I had NO clue how to fix it.
it's not actually caused by offloading, but offloading means that transfers from the nic to the motherboard aren't protected by the standard network checksums, so they pass through to userland with bad data (rather than getting rejected in the network stack). > Everything is working now and I hope I NEVER have to open these 1U cases > again. Jamming the SATA connectors back in after they're covered by the NIC > makes me cry. ;) (-:
