Renaud Lienhart wrote:
Hi,
We're having trouble virtualizing FreeBSD 7+ on ESX because of an issue
with the stack's TSO implementation: it sometimes generates TSO packets
whose payload size is actually smaller than the MSS.
The faulty logic is described, along with a patch, in PR #132832. It
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No, the problem Mike is having is due to an issue in our new shared code
in how we get the mac address, we changed it to support alt mac addresses,
and it works find on our hardware, there is an issue in the vmware
emulation.
Nevertheless, if there's a problem in the TSO code it would be nice to g
Interesting. That might explain a problem that Mike Silbersack is
seeing with the latest em driver on vmware.
I don't know of any NICs that actually choke on such frames.
Nonetheless, it is silly behavior. I'll try to see if we can get this
fixed before 7.2.
Thanks,
Kip
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 8
