Re: Debian 9.2, VSphere 6.5.0, "TCP performance may be compromised"

2017-10-19 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
I wrote: > Right. But it's a big company and I can't influence when or how ESX gets upgraded. Perhaps I should explain that everywhere I've worked that uses VMware, the VMware admins are almost always current or former Windows admins. Naturally that's because there are hundreds-to-thousands of des

Re: Debian 9.2, VSphere 6.5.0, "TCP performance may be compromised"

2017-10-19 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 1:25 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: > Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > > And unfortunately the HTML5 version of the VSphere app doesn't permit > > editing of, for example, that vmxnet3 parameter for mitigation of > > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=191201#c49 > > You don'

Re: Debian 9.2, VSphere 6.5.0, "TCP performance may be compromised"

2017-10-19 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 12:48 PM, deloptes wrote > > You know that firefox and flash can be installed in any directory - no need > to install a full system just to have flash working ... you Viking :) > I literally tried every permutation of chrome, opera and IE11 on Windoze7, and opera, chrome

Re: Debian 9.2, VSphere 6.5.0, "TCP performance may be compromised"

2017-10-19 Thread Sven Hartge
Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 11:34 AM, Sven Hartge wrote: >> You will get the "suspect GRO implementation" with 5.5 as well, but >> it is harmless. I have not yet found any performance problems. > Yes, still receive that message, even with the VM option set. > It's an ug

Re: Debian 9.2, VSphere 6.5.0, "TCP performance may be compromised"

2017-10-19 Thread deloptes
Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > Flash has been annoying me for years now. Glad it's on the way > out.Nick Just for the record: You know that firefox and flash can be installed in any directory - no need to install a full system just to have flash working ... you Viking :) For example you could p

Re: Debian 9.2, VSphere 6.5.0, "TCP performance may be compromised"

2017-10-19 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 11:34 AM, Sven Hartge wrote: > > You will get the "suspect GRO implementation" with 5.5 as well, but it > is harmless. I have not yet found any performance problems. > Yes, still receive that message, even with the VM option set. It's an ugly story, but a Win 7 update Mo

Re: Debian 9.2, VSphere 6.5.0, "TCP performance may be compromised"

2017-10-18 Thread Sven Hartge
Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 10:26 AM, Sven Hartge wrote: >> Nicholas Geovanis wrote: >>> kernel: TCP: ens192: Driver has suspect GRO implementation, TCP >>> performance may be compromised >> As long as you use at lease ESXi 6.5u1 there will be no problem. If >> you are o

Re: Debian 9.2, VSphere 6.5.0, "TCP performance may be compromised"

2017-10-18 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 10:26 AM, Sven Hartge wrote: > Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > > kernel: TCP: ens192: Driver has suspect GRO implementation, TCP > > performance may be compromised > > As long as you use at lease ESXi 6.5u1 there will be no problem. If you > are on pre-6.5u1, your Stretch

Re: Debian 9.2, VSphere 6.5.0, "TCP performance may be compromised"

2017-10-18 Thread Sven Hartge
Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > I have a 9.2 system running in a VMware VM which receives the > following message at startup which I've never seen before. The VMware > network driver in use is VMXNET 3; the VMware tools daemon is running: > kernel: TCP: ens192: Driver has suspect GRO implementation,

Debian 9.2, VSphere 6.5.0, "TCP performance may be compromised"

2017-10-18 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
I have a 9.2 system running in a VMware VM which receives the following message at startup which I've never seen before. The VMware network driver in use is VMXNET 3; the VMware tools daemon is running: kernel: TCP: ens192: Driver has suspect GRO implementation, TCP performance may be compromised