netdev - Re: [ofa-general] Re: IPoIB forwarding

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Date:	Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:39:34 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	rick.jones2@...com
Cc:	lawver1@...l.gov, mst@....mellanox.co.il,
	general@...ts.openfabrics.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ofa-general] Re: IPoIB forwarding

From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@...com>
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:37:49 -0700

> Large Receive Offload (LRO) is enabled by default.  This will
> interfere with forwarding TCP traffic.  If you plan to forward TCP
> traffic (using the host with the Myri10GE NIC as a router or bridge),
> you must disable LRO.  To disable LRO, load the myri10ge driver
> with myri10ge_lro set to 0:

LRO should be disabled by default if the driver does this.  This is a
major and unacceptable bug.

Thanks for pointing this out Rick.
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