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Re: [Xen-users] GPLPV or other drivers for win2k8r2?

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Subject: Re: [Xen-users] GPLPV or other drivers for win2k8r2?
From: James Pifer <jep@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2010 09:21:52 -0500
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On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 20:51 -0700, Nick Couchman wrote:
> When you tested this, did you disable transmission checksum
> offloading?  This setting, which is enabled by default, has always
> caused me some problems and I almost always have to disable it.  The
> symptoms could include bad network performance, as packets will be
> retransmited repeatedly due to the bad checksums generated by the
> checksum offloading.
> 
> -Nick

No I didn't, I was going to try installing gplpv on win2008 this
morning, but I really don't want to deal with the signing issue. I think
I'll first try Matthias' suggestion using the e1000 model driver. 

Thanks to all!
James 


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