On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, David S. Miller wrote: > The cheap gigabit chipsets have some minor limitations which pose some > interesting problems that I'd like to see solved in the kernel (see > previous threads wrt. unaligned headers on packet receive). Yup, currently the least expensive gigabit boards use Natsemi 83820 series chips (usually the '821). They can only receive into 64 bit aligned buffers. On the plus side, the chips do have IP checksum. Donald Becker becker@scyld.com Scyld Computing Corporation http://www.scyld.com 410 Severn Ave. Suite 210 Second Generation Beowulf Clusters Annapolis MD 21403 410-990-9993 - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
