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

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 10:45:56 -0800

On Tue, 5 Jan 2010 10:40:35 -0800
Dhananjay Phadke <[email-masked]> 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.

You should be doing GRO, what about multiple addresses per interface,
bridging, routing, ...