Subject: Re: e1000e hardware CRC stripping breaks bridging

From: "Kok, Auke" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:25:43 -0800

Daniel Drake wrote:
> Johan Andersson reported on the Gentoo bugzilla that the hardware CRC
> stripping enabled by e1000e breaks bridging because sometimes the CRC is
> not stripped:
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=209235
> 
> Apparently "upstream" are aware but I couldn't find any mails or bug
> reports on this topic.
> 
> What's the current status of this issue? Perhaps we should disable
> hardware CRC stripping for 2.6.24.x/2.6.25 until this gets fixed?

Jesse figured it out. I just send you a patch to test, can you guys give that a
try and see if it fixes the situation? Johan?

thanks,

Auke