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Re: Re: How to use IP/UDP/TCP checksum offload HW?
On 07.06.2011 22:28, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2011-06-07, Laurie Gellatly <laurie.gellatly@netic.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Simon, Are you doing anything about enabling hardware CRC in the
>> new port that we should align to?
> Just to clarify, we're talking about the IP 1's compliment checksum,
> not the Ethernet CRC, right?
Sure. And optionally some other IP (layer 3) processing.
> AFAIK, the network stacks all assume the CRC is done in hardware -- or
> at least by the driver code. [Yes, I've used controllers where you had
> to do the CRC in software.]
>
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