Re: [PATCH] Work around dhclient brokenness

Avi Kivity
2008-08-18T11:40:57Z

Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 02:06:46PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
>
>>> I still think that having the guests tell us that they can handle
>>> it is the safest and most efficient way to proceed.
>>>
>>>
>> I thought this is a userspace problem? Can we fix this in the guest kernel?
>>
>
> Right, I meant that it's best to have the guest's user-space tell
> us that it can handle checksum offload through ethtool via virtio.
>

Isn't that turned on automatically for real hardware? And what's to
prevent a broken dhclient together with the (presumably) hacked up
initscripts that call ethtool?

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