On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 03:43:53PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > TCP over IPV6 would incorrectly inherit the GSO settings. > This would cause kernel to send Tcp Segmentation Offload packets for > IPV6 data to devices that can't handle it. It caused the sky2 driver > to lock http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7050 > and the e1000 would generate bogus packets. I can't blame the > hardware for gagging if the upper layers feed it garbage. > > This was a new bug in 2.6.18 introduced with GSO support. > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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