From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Hutchings Subject: RE: [PATCH NEXT 0/2] qlcnic: Add Qlogic 1/10Gb Ethernet driver for CNA devices Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:43:37 +0000 Message-ID: <1262735017.26813.52.camel@localhost> References: <1262697876-26206-1-git-send-email-amit.salecha@qlogic.com> <20100105091548.57caf0a4@nehalam> <7608421F3572AB4292BB2532AE89D5658B0BAE9402@AVEXMB1.qlogic.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Stephen Hemminger , Amit Salecha , "davem@davemloft.net" , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" To: Dhananjay Phadke Return-path: Received: from exchange.solarflare.com ([216.237.3.220]:13488 "EHLO exchange.solarflare.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751642Ab0AEXnp (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Jan 2010 18:43:45 -0500 In-Reply-To: <7608421F3572AB4292BB2532AE89D5658B0BAE9402@AVEXMB1.qlogic.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 10:40 -0800, Dhananjay Phadke 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. LRO will automatically be disabled on interfaces that have forwarding or bridging enabled. You should not need to check for this yourself. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Communications Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job. They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked.