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From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
To: "Dan Noé" <dnoe@limebrokerage.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: TCP stateless offload with bonding?
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 17:38:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080905163828.GK7908@solarflare.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48C15885.9050908@limebrokerage.com>

Dan Noé wrote:
> The Documentation/networking/bonding.txt file talks about VLAN offload 
> support and the bonding driver, but not TCP segmentation, UDP/TCP 
> checksum, etc, offloading.  Is this supported by the bonding driver, and 
> if so, how is it configured?
> 
> If it matters, we are using bonding for HA/failover, not for bandwidth 
> aggregation.

The bonding driver generally provides all the offload features that all its
slave devices provide.  You can configure this by using ethtool on the slave
devices.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Communications
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They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked.

      reply	other threads:[~2008-09-05 16:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-05 16:04 TCP stateless offload with bonding? Dan Noé
2008-09-05 16:38 ` Ben Hutchings [this message]

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