Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 30 Mar 2005 15:25:28 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux? |
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Indrek Kruusa wrote: > Jeff Garzik wrote: > >> Andi Kleen wrote: >> >>> Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> writes: >>> >>>> I won't disagree with your experiences. For me, outside of one brief >>>> moment when the r8169 driver didn't work on Athlon64, it has worked >>>> flawlessly for me. >>>> >>>> RealTek 8169 is currently my favorite gigabit chip. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> It does not seem to support DAC (or rather it breaks with DAC >>> enabled), which makes it not very useful on any machine with >3GB of >>> memory. >> >> >> >> Driver bug. I can futz with it and get it to do 64-bit on my Athlon64. > > > > Continuing with off-topic questions: is this "checksum off-load" usable > with r8169? Is there any other reason (performance?) to use hardware > TCP/IP checksumming than just "cool, a little chunk of software is > hardwired again"?
It's usable, and enables "zero copy" feature.
> I have seen you mentioned that this causes mainly troubles if you try to > set it with ethtool. Is it still true?
Not sure what you are referring to.
Jeff
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