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On Tue, 5 Jan 2010 10:40:35 -0800
Dhananjay Phadke <dhananjay.phadke@qlogic.com> 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, ...