On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 12:06 -0400, sowmini.varadhan at sun.com wrote:
> e data-point: the bge driver on my XP allows me
> to choose the following through the Control panel for "checksum
> offload":
> {none, rx tcp/ip checksum, tx tcp/ip checksum, tx/rx tcp/ip checksum}.
> The last one appears to be on by default.
>
My gut feeling is that, no, this should not be a customer accessible
tunable. I know some folks don't agree with me... Bill Sommerfeld for
instance.... but in general, having more knobs usually adds confusion,
and this is one knob that I don't think customers should have to tune...
the only reason I can justify for ever using it is to work around busted
hardware/software, and in those cases the hardware should be replaced or
the device driver patched.
I don't think Brussels should be trying to solve this kind of problem.
-- Garrett
