From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Hutchings Subject: Re: TCP stateless offload with bonding? Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 17:38:29 +0100 Message-ID: <20080905163828.GK7908@solarflare.com> References: <48C15885.9050908@limebrokerage.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Dan =?iso-8859-1?B?Tm/p?= Return-path: Received: from smarthost03.mail.zen.net.uk ([212.23.3.142]:50402 "EHLO smarthost03.mail.zen.net.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751792AbYIEQik (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Sep 2008 12:38:40 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <48C15885.9050908@limebrokerage.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Dan No=E9 wrote: > The Documentation/networking/bonding.txt file talks about VLAN offloa= d=20 > support and the bonding driver, but not TCP segmentation, UDP/TCP=20 > checksum, etc, offloading. Is this supported by the bonding driver, = and=20 > if so, how is it configured? >=20 > If it matters, we are using bonding for HA/failover, not for bandwidt= h=20 > 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. --=20 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.