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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: GSO and IPv4 forwarding
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From: Kevin Wilson <wkevils@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 22:02:26 +0200

> My question is:
> dev_disable_lro(dev) disable the LRO feature (NETIF_F_LRO) of the
> device. But suppose I have a device where GRO is enabled (and LRO is
> not). And let's say I set forwarding on this device.

GRO is completely different from LRO, and can remain enabled
when forwarding is turned on.