Subject: Re: TCP-Protection is really a pain...

From: Christian Schmid <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 21:19:19 +0100

Offload parameters for eth0:
rx-checksumming: on
tx-checksumming: on
scatter-gather: on
tcp segmentation offload: on

What exactly is tcp segmentation offload? Where can I read more about it? Should I disable it or is 
this not a good idea?

Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 20:58:48 +0100
> Christian Schmid <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
> E1000 support TSO. To check if it is enabled do:
> 	ethtool -k eth0
> To turn it off use.
> 	ethtool -K eth0 tso off
> 
> You get the idea..
>