> The e1000 can very well do hardware checksumming on transmit.
>
> The missing piece of the puzzle is that his application is not
> using sendfile(), without which no transmit checksum offload
> can take place.
As far as I've understood, sendfile() won't do much good with large files. Is
this right?
We're talking of 3-6GB files here ...
roy
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