[ofa-general] Re: IPoIB forwarding

[David Miller]

From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2 at hp.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.