Re: [PATCH] Work around dhclient brokenness

Rusty Russell
2008-08-19T09:13:35Z

On Tuesday 19 August 2008 15:28:40 Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 03:17:08PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > All we need is a simple toggle to disable checksum offload. Every
> > NIC that offers receive checksum offload allows it to be disabled.
> > virtio shouldn't be any different.
>
> So why CSUM2 and not an ethtool interface then?

We need both. CSUM2 is the new virtio-level feature. The ethtool interface
allows you to toggle it (we don't support that currently, but that's simply
slackness).

Rusty.