netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/2] Disable forwarding of LRO skbs

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Message-Id: <20080501.035204.147190700.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 01 May 2008 03:52:04 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au
Cc:	bhutchings@...arflare.com, kmansley@...arflare.com,
	shemminger@...tta.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Disable forwarding of LRO skbs

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 18:45:17 +0800

> On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 06:38:54PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > 
> > I still don't understand why we can't forward LRO packets.  It
> > should be no different to forwarding GSO packets if it's properly
> > constructed.
> 
> Nevermind, doing LRO on forwarded traffic is fundamentally broken
> because it breaks the end-to-end connection.

Ok, that brings us back to your virtualization issues.
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