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Message-ID: <1262169433.2247.15.camel@localhost>
Date:	Wed, 30 Dec 2009 11:37:13 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	thomas yang <lampsu@...il.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Ethernet CRC questions

On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 13:53 +0800, thomas yang wrote:
> 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 ?

Relative to what?

>  Could I disable CRC appending / verifying  in the network card driver
>   on all of my nodes (machines) ?

Maybe if you want switches to discard everything you send...

Ben.

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