Call for testers: Atheros AR8121(L1E)/AR8113/AR8114(L2E) ethernet

[Pyun YongHyeon]

On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 12:27:12PM +0300, Boris Samorodov wrote:
 > Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh at gmail.com> writes:

[...]


 > > One user reported non-working NFS over UDP and I disabled Rx
 > > checksum offload as AR81xx hardware is not able to handle
 > > fragmented IP datagrams correctly. So it's highly recommended to
 > > disable Rx checksum offload or use the following updated files.
 > >
 > > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/ale/ale.20081108.tar.gz
 > 
 > Tested at EeePC-1000. The perfomance dropped (seems to be expected)
 > twice -- to 5.5 MB/s (fetching a big file to tmpfs). Other than that
 > works fine. This is for:
 > -----
 > ale0 at pci0:4:0:0:        class=0x020000 card=0x83241043 chip=0x10261969 rev=0xb0 hdr=0x00
 >     vendor     = 'Attansic (Now owned by Atheros)'
 >     class      = network
 >     subclass   = ethernet
 > -----
 > 

Fortunately, I've managed to add work-around for Rx checksum
offload issue. Would you try latest ale(4) at the fowllowing URL?
http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/ale/ale.20081110.tar.gz

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Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon