[Pvfs2-users] unexplainable data corruption

[Dries Kimpe]

* Emmanuel Florac <eflorac at intellique.com> [2008-05-30 17:20:37]:

> Yes, the Intel Pro1000 has a TOE, it may be faulty. I don't know how to
> disable it unfortunately.

Try ethtool

mhdmobile lts # ethtool -h 
...
       -k --show-offload
              Queries the specified ethernet device for offload information.

       -K --offload
              Changes the offload parameters of the specified ethernet device.

       rx on|off
              Specifies whether RX checksumming should be enabled.

       tx on|off
              Specifies whether TX checksumming should be enabled.
...

mhdmobile lts # ethtool -k eth0
Offload parameters for eth0:
rx-checksumming: on
tx-checksumming: on
scatter-gather: on
tcp segmentation offload: on
udp fragmentation offload: off
generic segmentation offload: off

(mine is 09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5752
Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02)

  Dries


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