Re: bge and checksums

From: Kelly Yancey (kbyanc_at_posi.net)
Date: 03/24/05

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    To: Boris Kovalenko <boris@ntmk.ru>
    
    

    On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, Boris Kovalenko wrote:

    > Hello!
    >
    > I try to use DSNiff with my FreeBSD 5.4-PRE and bge NIC. Unfortunatelly
    > it does no work. My supposition is that the root of problem is bad tcp
    > checksums (as shown by tcpdump). And DSNiff (and underlaying libnids)
    > are checking for checksums. As I undrestand, bge has txcsum flag, so tcp
    > stack does not computes checksum itself. Am I right? And may I turn off
    > txcsum flag without modifying bge driver?
    >

      Have you tried the -txcsum option described in ifconfig(8)?

      Kelly

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