Re: [PATCH] Work around dhclient brokenness

Herbert Xu
2008-08-19T05:17:19Z

On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 10:13:55PM -0700, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
>
> CSUM2 sounds so ugly though. Features seem to get added and never
> removed.... how about if this had a documented short lifetime (if it
> really must go in)?

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.

Resetting the NIC seems a bit over the top.

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