structure, which is new to the 82550 and 82551, is used to transmit
a packet. This appears to fix the packet truncation problem that was
observed when using 82550-based fxp cards to transmit ICMP or fragmented
UDP packets of certain lengths which only had one to three bytes in the
second and final mbuf of the packet. This matches a note in the "Intel
8255x 10/100 Mbps Ethernet Controller Family Open Source Software Developer
Manual", which says that the hardware parse bit should be set when sending
these types of packets.
There have also been unconfirmed reports of similar problems when
transmitting TCP packets, which should not be affected by the above
mentioned change because the hardware parse bit was already being set
if the stack requested hardware checksumming of the packet. If the
problem remains, the use of the IPCB structure can be disabled to
cause the driver to fall back to using the older 82559 interface with
82550-based cards by setting
hint.fxp.UNIT_NUMBER.ipcbxmit_disable
to a non-zero value at boot time, or using kenv to set this variable
before using kldload to load the fxp driver.
Approved by: re (jhb)
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