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Re: Bad UDP checksum with 82540EM

To: Jon D Mason <jonmason@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Bad UDP checksum with 82540EM
From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@xxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2004 23:42:21 +0100
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In-reply-to: <OFE5352D34.67E10D98-ON87256E33.00725857-86256E33.0076C481@us.ibm.com> (Jon D. Mason's message of "Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:37:16 -0600")
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Jon D Mason <jonmason@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> This probably isn't helpful, but it sounds like a hardware error.  Is the 
> error occurring on multiple/all HP adapters, or only one? 

I've also seen it with a HP branded BCM5701 on IA64, but also with a
Broadcom BCM5702 on AMD64 (both using the tg3 driver).  It seems like
broken UDP checksumming is rather common. :-(

Andreas.

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