Subject: Re: LRO/GSO interaction when packets are forwarded

From: Jarek Poplawski <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 06:00:18 +0000

On 23-04-2008 01:01, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
...
>>>> First off, no hardware should ever do LRO on non-local packets. If the
>>>> hardware isn't smart enough to do this, I guess the bridge code to have
>>>> an API to turn it off. IP should also turn it off if ip_forwarding
>>>> is enabled on that device.

Could you explain this more? (I can't see any obvious reason why
forwarding between local networks should differ here from bridging?)

Thanks,
Jarek P.