Re: [PATCH] Work around dhclient brokenness

Herbert Xu
2008-08-19T09:56:26Z

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 07:08:23PM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
>
> Not really. We could extend the protocol, but that's currently how feature
> negotiation works: you can't do it while the device is live. That seemed
> simplest. I learnt from Xen :)
>
> (Of course, we don't need to *disable* it, we need to *enable* it).

I don't see why we shouldn't support disabling it. After all, any
NIC that supports receive checksum offload allows it to be disabled.

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