netdev - Re: LRO/GSO interaction when packets are forwarded

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Date:	Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:50:18 +0000
From:	Kieran Mansley <kmansley@...arflare.com>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: LRO/GSO interaction when packets are forwarded

On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 17:06 +0000, Kieran Mansley wrote:
> Given that there seem to be a small number of places where this is
> currently causing problems (LRO through a bridge to a stack is fine,
> it's only if the packet is forwarded that things go wrong), and that an
> LRO packet should in most cases be very easy to segment (it's already in
> network-sized fragments) I wonder if making it work would be
> easier/better than preventing it from happening.

I hope to get some time to work on this in the not-too-distant future.  

Kieran

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