Regression with txcsum/rxcsum on vge(4) drivers on 8.0-Release

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 01:40:18AM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 10:32:42AM +0100, Olivier Cochard-Labbé wrote:
> > I've just upgraded on of my server from 7.2 to 8.0-Release and meet a
> > problem with the vge(4) drivers:
> > All my SCP transferts didn't works since this upgrade: they close, after a
> > random time, with "Corrupted MAC on input" message.
> > And Putty SSH tunnel closed with "Incorrect MAC received on packet".
> > 
> > I need to disable txcsum and rxcsum on the vge network card for solving this
> > problem.
> > 
> > Does anyone meet the same regression between 7.2 and 8.0 ?
> 
> PYUN Yong-Hyeon will respond to this I'm sure, but have you tried the
> vge(4) code from RELENG_8 (known as 8.0-STABLE)?  I've seen some commits
> to this driver since 8.0-RELEASE:
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/vge/

I also want to point out that cvsweb is currently lying with regards to
when the files in a tree were last modified -- how/why that's broken is
beyond the scope of this thread, but it should probably get fixed.
The above URL references all tags/branches.

Example:

if_vge.c	1.72	3 weeks		yongari

Yet the latest commit is from 6 days ago:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/vge/if_vge.c

Revision 1.31.2.12: download - view: text, markup, annotated - select for diffs
Sat Jan 9 00:29:04 2010 UTC (6 days, 9 hours ago) by yongari
Branches: RELENG_7

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