From: Tom Herbert <t...@herbertland.com> Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 09:42:00 -0800
> Why not just fix the stack to conform to RFC6864? As Edward pointed > out we lose the actual IP ID's in GRO anyway, so attempts to set them > in GSO may be wildly incorrect from the source point of view-- even in > that case were probably better off changing the IP identifier to zero > (okay since we're already breaking the E2E model anyway :-) ). Tom, you can't, you'll break TCP header compression schemes which expect a monotonically increasing IP ID value. We tried setting the IP ID to zero for frames with DF set, it broke things.
