Subject: RE: [PATCH NEXT 0/2] qlcnic: Add Qlogic 1/10Gb Ethernet driver for CNA devices

From: Ben Hutchings <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:43:37 +0000

On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 10:40 -0800, Dhananjay Phadke wrote:
> > It looks like this driver is tracking IP addresses? Is it doing
> > some offload? will it work with IPV6?
> 
> Driver listens for "local" IP addresses that helps
> firmware to detect local TCP flows for LRO. We don't
> want firmware to accumulate non-local (forwarded)
> packets. This is inherited from netxen_nic.
> 
> Currently only IPv4 addresses are supported, IPv6 will
> be enabled as soon as firmware advertises support.

LRO will automatically be disabled on interfaces that have forwarding or
bridging enabled.  You should not need to check for this yourself.

Ben.

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