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Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 13:53:09 +0800
From: thomas yang <lampsu@...il.com>
To: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Ethernet CRC questions
2009/12/30 Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>:
> On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 01:17 +0800, thomas yang wrote:
>> How does Linux generate Ethernet CRC ?
>> by the hardware (Ethernet controller) or use crc32_le() /
>> crc32_be() ( lib/crc32.c ) ?
>>
>> P.S. my network card is rtl8139d , use 8139too driver
>
> The Ethernet frame CRC is normally generated and verified in hardware.
> These library functions are needed for the few MACs that don't, or where
> the same CRC function is used for some other purpose (e.g. as a hash
> function for multicast filtering).
>
Does the Ethernet frame CRC (generate and verify in hardware) make
the TX / RX rate a little smaller , and a longer end-to-end delay ?
Could I disable CRC appending / verifying in the network card driver
on all of my nodes (machines) ?
Thanks.
--
Thomas
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