From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 23:47:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 23:47:26 -0500 Received: from alpha8.cc.monash.edu.au ([130.194.1.8]:43269 "EHLO ALPHA8.CC.MONASH.EDU.AU") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 23:47:25 -0500 Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 14:39:59 +1100 (EST) From: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com To: undisclosed-recipients:; Message-id: <20021029033959.B76CD12CE75@blammo.its.monash.edu.au> Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > The e1000 can very well do hardware checksumming on transmit. > > The missing piece of the puzzle is that his application is not > using sendfile(), without which no transmit checksum offload > can take place. As far as I've understood, sendfile() won't do much good with large files. Is this right? We're talking of 3-6GB files here ... roy -- Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk, Datavaktmester ProntoTV AS - http://www.pronto.tv/ Tel: +47 9801 3356 Computers are like air conditioners. They stop working when you open Windows.