Re: TCP Segmentation Offload

2003-09-08 Thread Andrew Gallatin
Luigi Rizzo writes: > On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 04:47:22PM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > > > I've been reading a little about TCP Segmentation Offload (aka TSO). > > We don't appear to support it, but at least 2 of our supported nics > > (e1000

Re: TCP Segmentation Offload

2003-09-06 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 04:47:22PM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > I've been reading a little about TCP Segmentation Offload (aka TSO). > We don't appear to support it, but at least 2 of our supported nics > (e1000 and bge) apparently could support it. i believe there i

TCP Segmentation Offload

2003-09-05 Thread Andrew Gallatin
I've been reading a little about TCP Segmentation Offload (aka TSO). We don't appear to support it, but at least 2 of our supported nics (e1000 and bge) apparently could support it. The gist is that TCP pretends the nic has a large mtu, and passes a large (> the mtu on the link